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Throughout her life, she behaved as if she had never heard anyone suggest that a woman couldn't do e...

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Francine ProseThe Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired

I am my own muse, the subject I know best.

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.

And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.

It ain't so easy writing about nothin

The Muse herself makes some men inspired, from whom a chain of other men is strung out who catch the...

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There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and ...

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To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If no...

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There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

There is a muse, but he’s not going to come fluttering down into your writing room and scatter creat...

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Stephen KingOn Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.

And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.

And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.

Hallo, Pooh,” said Rabbit.“Hallo, Rabbit,” said Pooh dreamily.“Did you make that song up?”“Well, I s...

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A. A. MilneThe House at Pooh Corner

For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to ...

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Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance...