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Letter "M" » muse
«Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse. a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.»
Author: Louis Untermeyer
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About:
Poets
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Keywords:
adroit,
assonance,
consonant,
consonants,
deride,
derided,
derides,
matching,
muse,
Muses,
Pierian,
Pierian Spring,
pun,
punning,
Puns,
shifting,
soil,
vowel,
vowels
«Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you»
Author: Saint Bartholomew
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Keywords:
Day,
every day,
listening,
muse,
mused,
Muses,
musing,
spend,
Tell,
time of day,
trying
«The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.»
«And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.»
«I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.»
Author: John Updike
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About:
Poetry
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Keywords:
drops,
drop off,
from time to time,
mailman,
muse,
mused,
Muses,
musing,
postcard,
postcards,
ran,
run off,
scribble,
scribbled,
scribbles,
scribbling
«Perversity is the muse of modern literature»
«And strictly meditate the thankless Muse.»
«Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it»
«Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Essayist,
Lecturer,
Poet)
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About:
Art
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Keywords:
adorn,
adorning,
adorns,
arts,
embellish,
embellishes,
embellishing,
muse,
mused,
Muses,
musing,
office,
patronage,
preside,
presided,
presiding,
purifies,
purify,
refine,
refines,
refining,
worthy
«O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.»