It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.


Diary (April 1864) - Letters, etc


It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying...

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying...

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying...

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying...