{"quotes":[{"text":"Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm, a brand of paper, but most often a writing instrument. Am I writing well? Thank my pen. Am I writing badly? Don't blame me blame my pen. By such displacements does the fearful imagination defend itself.","author":"Anne Fadiman","tags":["imagination","muses","paper","pen","writer","writing"],"id":4454,"author_id":"Anne+Fadiman"},{"text":"What you seem to forget is that I'm not one of the embodiments of evil. I'm one of the embodiments of fear. That means I know what makes evil quake in the light of the sun.","author":"Emily Kirby","tags":["fear","horror","horror-fantasy","muse","muses"],"id":39990,"author_id":"Emily+Kirby"},{"text":"Scars and a thrill seeker. Gods help her...","author":"Lisa Kessler","tags":["greek-mythology","kronos","muses","paranormal-romance","titans","zeus"],"id":41098,"author_id":"Lisa+Kessler"},{"text":"When the lyrical muse sings the creative pen dances.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["creative-flow","creative-genius","creative-minds","creative-muse","creative-process","creative-writing","creativity","inspiration-for-writers","lyrical-writing","lyricism","muses","nanowrimo","napowrimo","national-novel-writing-month","national-poetry-month","nobel-prize-for-literature","nobel-prize-in-literature","pen","singing-and-dancing","world-book-day","world-poetry-day","writers-and-writing"],"id":42405,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"The nine Greek Muses, awakened again for this generation of man and meant to inspire mankind forward in the sciences and the arts.","author":"Lisa Kessler","tags":["kronos","muses","mythology","paranormal-romance","titans","zeus"],"id":55889,"author_id":"Lisa+Kessler"},{"text":"Last night, I was a mad man searching for a whiff of your fragrance. The stars and the moon even laughed at me.","author":"Avijeet Das","tags":["artiste","creativity","fragrance","laughter","madness","moon","muses","night","stars","writing-life"],"id":68154,"author_id":"Avijeet+Das"},{"text":"We hold hands together delicately and sublimely and look longingly into each other’s eyes.","author":"Avijeet Das","tags":["delicately","eyes","longingly","love-is-all-you-need","love","muses","romance","sublimely","valentines"],"id":74230,"author_id":"Avijeet+Das"},{"text":"A true leader leads for the sake of love and his knowledge of the path, a bad leader redirects his followers to the path of destruction.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["calculation","calculations","complication","creativity","divided","dubiety","dubious","education","higher-life","information","inspiration","inspirational","intent","intention","knowledge","leadership","leading","litics","meditation","mind","muse","muses","musing","reformation","soul","talent","the-truth","the-way","thinking","true-leader","wit","wits","witty"],"id":100726,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"The boys were amazed that I could make such a poem as that out of my own head, and so was I, of course, it being as much a surprise to me as it could be to anybody, for I did not know that it was in me. If any had asked me a single day before if it was in me, I should have told them frankly no, it was not.That is the way with us; we may go on half of our life not knowing such a thing is in us, when in reality it was there all the time, and all we needed was something to turn up that would call for it.","author":"Mark Twain","tags":["creativity","inspiration","muses","poetry","unexpected"],"id":111103,"author_id":"Mark+Twain"},{"text":"The Order of the Titans had agreed with his assessment. This generation, the Order would be successful where previous generations had failed, because this time they would steal mankind's inspiration. They would kill the muses for the greater good....\tFor the good of mankind.","author":"Lisa Kessler","tags":["greek-mythology","guardians","kronos","muses","paranormal-romance","titans","zeus"],"id":118728,"author_id":"Lisa+Kessler"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":39,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}