POOR MAN’S PARNASSUS
“Music is the poor man’s Parnassus. With the first note of the flute •or horn, or the first strain of song, we quit the world of common sense and launch on the sea of ideas and amotions; we pour contempt on the prose you so magnify; yet the sturdiest Philistine is silent. The like ■allowance is' the- prescriptive right of poetry. You shall not speak ideal truth in prose uncontradicted; you may in verse. The best' thoughts run into the best words; imaginative and affectionate thoughts into music and metre.”—Ralph' "Waldo Emerson.
He is not only iale who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.—Socrates.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 42, 17 January 1949, Page 5
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112POOR MAN’S PARNASSUS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 42, 17 January 1949, Page 5
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