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    I guess my husband is a muse as well.

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    I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet.

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    Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.

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    I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a muse, but then I weren't much of a poet

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    I'm surrounded by men, and the muse is complaining that I have neglected her.

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    I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.

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    I'm always resisting [my muse]. I'm resisting her power.

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    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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    In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself.

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    I like to follow my own muse.

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    It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks

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    Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.

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    Landmarks to the muses that inspired the music. When I could tell it was sincere without trying to prove it

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    Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.

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    I was Versace's muse, I was Valentino's muse, I was Alaia's muse, Lancetti's muse, Calvin Klein's, Halston's. I could go on and on.

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    My muse is an ungrateful harlot who’s abandoned me to actually come up with my own plots.

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    [My muse] feels nostalgic for Japan, and, perhaps strangely, for the pioneer days of America.

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    New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse...

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    Obey the muse, Liz said. She's a fickle mistress.

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    She [Kim Kardashian] was always my muse, now she's become other designers' muses.

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    Nature's my muse and it's been my passion.

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

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    Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.

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    So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain.

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

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    Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.

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    Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.

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    Sometimes I just don't have time to wait for the muse to come, so I've developed things to force the muse to come back.

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    Tell me, O muse, of travellers far and wide

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    So I fancy my Muse says, when I wish to die, Oh no, Oh no, we are not yet friends enough, And Virtue also says: We are not yet friends enough.

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    The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.

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    The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes. No foam-born Aphrodite, she vaguely resembles my old piano teacher, who was keen on metronomes.

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    The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.

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    The Muse is mute when public men Applaud a modern throne.

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    There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.

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    The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.

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    The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask.

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    There is no wide road which leads to the Muses.

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    To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

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    To me the Muses truly gave / An envied and a happy lot: / E'en when I lie within the grave, / I cannot, shall not, be forgot.

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    Unfortunately Seattle is my muse, for the better or worse of Seattle - I'm not sure.

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    Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat.

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    Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.

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    We stalk the truth as poets, sensualists, a duality, limited insanity. We labor in our muse, carving alphabets of experience into our hearts.

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    We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.

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    Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.

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    With her first Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Rooney Mara gave fashion fans a new Gothic-chic muse.

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    Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.

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    When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'

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    With no companion but the constant Muse, Who sought me when I needed her ah, when Did I not need her, solitary else?