Pierian Spring

American  

noun

Classical Mythology.

1. a fountain in Pieria, sacred to the Muses and supposedly conferring inspiration or learning on anyone who drank from it.

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Pierian Spring British  

noun

1. a sacred fountain in Pieria, in Greece, fabled to inspire those who drank from it

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Example Sentences

The following lines are: “Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:/There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain/And drinking largely sobers us again.”

From Washington Post

Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.’

From Literature

"And jolly to drink of the Pierian spring or from the well of truth without either of them leaving a nasty taste in the mouth."

From Project Gutenberg

This confidence of ignorance is nowhere more perfectly, or more briefly, expressed, than in four oft-repeated lines, in Pope’s Essay on Criticism: “A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: These shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.”

From Project Gutenberg

Drink deep, O muse, of the Pierian spring, Unlock the doors of memory.

From Project Gutenberg