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“It inspired all sorts of whims and fancies that I ultimately wove into a fairy tale complete with muse, the earth, the moon, some famous inventors, a dog and a rabbit.”

Earth Dog Moon Inspired Tales Fancy Fairy Fairy Tale Muse Rabbits Inventor Whim

Author:Kit Williams

“Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a mood so raffish that there are those who claim to have seen her with her slip showing.”

May Has Beens Known History Claims Mood Slips Muse Chaste

Book:History: Facts and Fable

Source: History: Facts and Fable

“The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.”

Wells Art Genius Greek Phrases Muse

Author:Horace

“I'd really like having a couple days of being a rock star, although I'd rather be a backup - like maybe the drummer for Muse It would also be fun to be gorgeous, like be Charlize Theron, just for a couple of days.”

Fun Stars Rocks Couple Muse Gorgeous Rock Star Drummer Backup

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“The power of our Muse lies in her meaninglessness. Even the style can turn one into a slave if one does not run away from it, and then one is doomed to repeat oneself. The only thing that counts is curiosity. For me personally, this is what creativity is about. It will express itself less in the fear of doing the same thing over again than in the desire not to go where one has already been.”

Ifs Doe Running Lying Desire Turns Creativity Style Slave Curiosity Oneself Repeats Running Away Doomed Muse Meaninglessness

Author:Gueorgui Pinkhassov

“One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.”

Needs Reason Suffering Waiting Block Muse Writer's Block

Author:Piers Anthony

“How sublime Upon a time-blanchd cliff to muse, and, while The eagle glories in a sea of air, To mingle with the scene around! - Survey The sun-warm heaven.”

Heaven Nature Sun Air Sea Scene Glory Warm Muse Sublime Eagles Cliffs Surveys

Book:A universal prayer ; Death ; A vision of heaven ; and A vision of hell

Source: A universal prayer ; Death ; A vision of heaven ; and A vision of hell

“We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age when no book was duplicated until someone took the pains to copy it out by hand, is obviously no longer suited to ’the needs of society’, or to the conservation of learning. The weeder is supremely needed if the Garden of the Muses is to persist as a garden.”

Ifs Needs Book Hands Care Age Pain Needed Garden Abundance Copies Reverence Persist Muse Conservation

Book:ABC of Reading

Source: ABC of Reading

“All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson from the Bible and Homer through Joyce and Proust.”

Men Today Literature Poet Men And Women Muse Liberated Sexist Joyce Proust Liberated Woman

Book:Closing of the American Mind

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.”

Years Poetry Four Years Ago Court Ran Four Years Muse Postcards Mailman

Author:John Updike

“Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.”

Choices Waiting Sitting Muse Sitting Around Sitting Around Waiting

Author:Kristin Hannah

“Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.”

Long Poetry Poet Ancient Priests Muse Parish Retailing Parish Priest

Book:The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four

Source: The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four

“When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.”

Long Two Soul Song Fans Competition Muse Wrath Two Souls

Book:The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides

Source: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides

“The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse to that of Poe, who reasoned, or feigned to reason, that the writing of a poem is an act of the intelligence. It never fails to amaze me that the classics hold a romantic theory of poetry, and a romantic poet a classical theory.”

Writing Art Ideas Reason Opinion Failing Poet Theory Mysterious Muse Ephemeral Platonic Art Of Writing Romantic Poet

Book:Doctor Brodie's Report

Source: Doctor Brodie's Report

“But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay; Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's blows; And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way. Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: "Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.”

Way Writing Looks Heart Children Said Stills Speak Study Feet Fool Blow Stranger Invention My Way Spite Pens Helpless Muse Biting

Author:Philip Sidney

“There is no wide road which leads to the Muses.”

Inspirational Wide Muse

Author:Propertius

“I think 'G.I. Joe' is a perfect example of how I'm the world's worst businessman. If I were smart, I'd be writing 'World War Z Part 12', but I have to go where the muse leads, and I've always been a huge 'G.I. Joe' fan. I always wanted to know more about these characters, these little plastic figures I played with as a kid.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Writing Littles War Character Kids Wanted Perfect Fans Worst Figures Example Huge Smart War Of The Worlds Plastic Muse Businessman World War Z

Author:Max Brooks

“I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.”

Knows Want Said Bigs Painting Muse Starks

Author:Jackie DeShannon

“But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.”

Feels Writing Stills I Can Given Concrete Muse

Author:Ian Hamilton Finlay

“Most bands have a sound that they're already identified with, so for the producer it becomes a process of helping them find their muse in the studio to make a record that will not only satisfy them artistically, but will also do something in the marketplace.”

Helping Process Sound Records Band Studios Producers Muse Marketplace

Author:Jerry Harrison

“As we've grown 'The Daily Muse' and met contacts who want to collaborate with us, knowing who does what has helped us be clear on who we want our partners to connect with - and makes us look buttoned up, too. SEO firm? Talk to our COO. An editor from the 'Huffington Post?' Meet our Editor-in-Chief.”

Want Looks Doe Knowing Clear Mets Partners Contact Chiefs Posts Firm Editors Muse Seo

Author:Kathryn Minshew

“For almost the first year of The Muse's life, I would do 5 to 8 networking events a week. And I don't necessarily think that's the right path for everyone, but I realized that as an entrepreneur, one of my strengths was finding the right people who could help us. I didn't come into startups with any network.”

People Thinking Years Firsts Helping Path Week Events Findings Entrepreneur I Realized Muse Networking Right Path

Author:Kathryn Minshew

“I am a big advocate for having an open discussion about team norms and preferences. At The Muse, some of us like to start working at 7:30 A.M. Others focus best from 10 P.M. to 2 A.M. Create a culture where it's acceptable not to be working when someone else is working.”

Bigs Culture Focus Team Discussion Acceptable Muse Norm Preference

Author:Kathryn Minshew

“I want the principles of a timeless muse, I want to eradicate my negative views.”

Want Philosophy Views Principles Negative Muse Timeless

Author:Lou Reed

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