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“For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out of glens and gardens of the Muses, and they bring them as bees do honey, flying like the bees? And what they say is true, for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him. So long as he has this in his possession, no man is able to make poetry or to chant in prophecy.”

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Book:The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters

Source: The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters

“Rhyme and meter force gaps in meaning so the muse can enter.”

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Author:Mason Cooley

“Let my muse Fail of thy former helps, and only use Her inadulterate strength. What's done by me Hereafter shall smell of the lamp, not thee.”

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Author:Robert Herrick

“For poetry, he's past his prime, He takes an hour to find a rhyme; His fire is out, his wit decayed, His fancy sunk, his muse a jade. I'd have him throw away his pen, But there's no talking to some men.”

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Book:Select poems of Prior and Swift [ed. by C. Bathurst].

Source: Select poems of Prior and Swift [ed. by C. Bathurst].

“But Fear and the Muse in turn guard the place Where the banished poet has gone And the night that comes with quickened pace Is ignorant of dawn.”

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Author:Anna Akhmatova

“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.”

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Author:John Updike

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

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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

“It's an incredible feeling to be the muse of someone's poems when you're both in love. But when the love ends, and you remain the subject of their verses, it becomes one of the most heart-wrenching experiences.”

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Author:Shahid Hussain Raja

“She wants me to ruin her And my pen makes her into poetry!”

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Author:Avijeet Das

“All I need to do is place my pen against paper and your love writes for me.”

“There is a third form of possession or madness, of which the Muses are the source. This seizes a tender, virgin soul and stimulates it to rapt passionate expression, especially in lyric poetry, glorifying the countless mighty deeds of ancient times for the instruction of posterity. But if any man comes to the gates of poetry without the madness of the Muses, persuaded that skill alone will make him a good poet, then shall he and his works of sanity with him be brought to nought by the poetry of madness, and behold, their place is nowhere to be found.”

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Book:Phaedrus

Source: Phaedrus

“Musicians do not get on stage without hearing the song singing inside of them. Poets do not write as if they are jotting down a sermon, they see everything in their subconscious before presenting it to the conscious, which they later turn to readable materials. Artist do not draw and paint without painting in dream states, trance, or see an art form that others do not see. Being creative does not calls for being any supernatural entity, but in creating with the entities inside of you.”

Source: The Infinity Sign