Climb Parnassus phrase
To compose poetry.
Have you ever climbed Parnassus?
He loved poetry and soon began to climb Parnassus.
He climbed Parnassus as soon as he fell in love with a girl.
The verb "climb" should be conjugated according to its tense.
"Parnassus" is a mountain in Greece, sacred to Apollo and the Muses, and famous for a temple of Apollo and for the Castalian spring.
If you swallow the bait, you take something that someone offers you, or agree to do something that someone asks you to do without knowing that it is a trick or way of getting something from you.
You can't just do whatever he wants you to do. Don't swallow the bait.