Parnassus quotes

They gang in Stirks, and come out Asses, Plain truth to speak; An'syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o'Greek!

-Burns, Robert
  'Epistle to  J. Lapraik,  An Old Scotch Bard,1  April1785', stanza12.

Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

-Emerson, RalphWaldo
  Letters and Social  Aims,'Poetry and Imagination'.

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