All 25 Uses
muse
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Hyperion
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- It says something about the type of writing I had been doing that my muse could flee without my noticing.
Part 3 *muse = source of inspiration
- "Perhaps," mused King Billy, beginning to lean on a globe and then jumping upright as it started to turn under his weight.
Part 3mused = reflected aloud
- My muse had fled.
Part 3muse = source of inspiration
- "Benares," mused Martin Silenus.†
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- Then, on a cool morning with my sleeping room rocking slightly in the upper branches of my tree on the Templar world, I awoke to a gray sky and the realization that my muse had fled.†
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- SHIT, it printed out, WHAT DID I DO WITH MY MUSE?†
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- For those who do not write and who never have been stirred by the creative urge, talk of muses seems a figure of speech, a quaint conceit, but for those of us who live by the Word, our muses are as real and necessary as the soft clay of language which they help to sculpt.†
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- For those who do not write and who never have been stirred by the creative urge, talk of muses seems a figure of speech, a quaint conceit, but for those of us who live by the Word, our muses are as real and necessary as the soft clay of language which they help to sculpt.†
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- My muse had fled.†
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- I farcast and flew to my favorite places, watching the suns set on the windblown prairies of Grass and the night fogs obscure the ebony crags of Nevermore, but although I emptied my mind of tbe trash-prose of the endless Dying Earth, there came no whispers from my muse.†
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- My muse had fled.†
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- No. Has your m-m-muse returned?†
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- I found no muse on Hyperion during those first years.†
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- No muse appeared.†
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- "The Frankenstein monster," mused the short little fat man in the wrinkled cape.†
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- It's my muse," I said, and turned, and went back to my room to write.†
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- The Shrike was my muse.†
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- I moved from room to room in King Billy's abandoned palace, working on my poem, waiting for my muse.†
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- When you think about it, the cause-effect begins to resemble some mad logic-loop by the data artist Carolus or perhaps a print by Escher: the Shrike had come into existence because of the incantatory powers of my poem but the poem could not have existed without the threat/presence of the Shrike as muse.†
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- You can't c-c-c-compose this poetry unless your m-m-muse is shedding blood, can you?†
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- Show him, Muses mine, that I may know him!†
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- So there's no way to tell?" mused Lamia.†
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- Me with my muse.†
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- Does the muse grant requests?†
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- This thing that is going to kill us tomorrow-my muse, our maker, our unmaker-it's traveled back through time.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(muse as in: her musings) reflect (think) deeply on a subject -- perhaps aloud
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(2)
(muse as in: She was his muse) the source of an artist's inspiration - especially a person or mythological goddessThe 9 muses were the daughters of the Greek gods Zeus & Mnemosyne. Each of the muses was thought to inspire and preside over one of the arts.
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, muse is used as a synonym for "poet". In Shakespeare's time, muse could be used in the sense of being astonished or puzzled by something strange or unexpected.