Meaning of Pierian spring | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The source of knowledge, inspiration, or learning.
   idiomatic, literary
2. Alternative letter-case form of Pierian spring.
   alt-of, uncountable, usually

Examples

“A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring.”

“At school I enjoyed the inestimable advantage of a very sensible, though at the same time, a very severe master. […] [H]e showed no mercy to phrase, metaphor, or image, unsupported by a sound sense, or where the same sense might have been conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer words. […] In fancy I can almost hear him now, exclaiming "Harp? Harp? Lyre? Pen and ink, boy, you mean! Muse, boy, Muse? Your Nurse's daughter, you mean! Pierian spring? Oh 'aye! the cloister-pump, I suppose!"”

“[…] a studious land Where humming youth, intent upon the page, Thirsting for knowledge with a noble rage, Drink dry the whole Pierian spring”

“For him the library represented a Pierian spring, that metaphorical source of knowledge and inspiration. He drew deeply there, quelling his intellectual insecurities and nourishing his fanatic ambitions.”

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