Muse Quotes - Page 19

• I wept when the muse Ulla bent over me. Blinded by tears I could not prevent her from kissing me, I could not prevent the Muse from giving me that terrible kiss. All of you who have ever been kissed by the Muse will surely understand that Oskar, once branded by that kiss, was condemned to take back the drum he had rejected years before, the drum he had buried in the sand of Sapse Cemetery.

  Gunter Grass

  Kissing, Years, Giving

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• The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic Poetry bears no relation at all to reality. As a matter of fact, I was trained as a clinical psychologist. Who simply happens to have specialized in the mental illness that you, in your ignorance, call literature.

  John Fowles

  Writing, Ignorance, Reality

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• Muses had a way of killing those whom they inspired.

  Katherine Neville

  Way, Inspired, Killing

  Katherine Neville (2015). “The Eight”, p.57, Open Road Media

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• Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Health, Exercise, Air

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.227

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