Helicon: "It takes one day to make a senator and ten years to make a worker." Caligula: "But I am afraid that it takes twenty... years to make a worker out of a senator."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All I want is the moon, Helicon. I know in advance what will kill me. I have not yet exhausted all that can make me live. That is ...why I want the moon.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am no Poet here; my pen 's the spout, Where the rain water of my eyes run out,... In pity of that name, whose fate wee see Thus copied out in griefs Hydrography: The Muses are not Mer-maids, though upon His death the Ocean might turn HeliconLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering ...house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wait a second while I take a swig off this bottle: it's my true and only Helicon, my Caballine fount, my sole Enthusiasm. Here, dr...inking, I deliberate, I reason, I resolve and conclude. After the epilogue I laugh, I write, I compose, I drink. Ennius drinking would write, writing would drink.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education--if it were admitted that the great object is to r...ead and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon--all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »