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Musings of Muse

Through out the time muse has been a phenomenon in the world of creativity. In different times different creative people have been enthralled by their muses. So the very first question comes to someone’s mind is who is a muse? The wikipedia says, “In Greek mythology, the Muses are a sisterhood of goddesses or spirits, their number set at nine by Classical times, who embody the arts and inspire the creation process with their graces through remembered and improvised song and stage, writing, traditional music, and dance”. The Muses are the Greek goddesses who preside over the arts and sciences and inspire those who excel at these pursuits. Daughters of Zeus, king of the gods, and Mnemosyne (”memory”), they were born at Pieria at the foot of Mount Olympus. Their nurse, Eupheme, raised them along with her son, Crotus the hunter, who was transported into the sky as Sagittarius upon his death.

For a common reader a muse can be defined as a woman who provides a creative person immense inspiration and energy to create and shape his dreams, ideas and thoughts through their creative passions. When some masters of their own craft finds and falls in love and beauty of a woman, it leads his urge to translate his passions into a creative piece say a painting, a novel or a poetry or anything else which catches the eyes of others. Time after time and behind every creation they gyrate their minds of those worshipers of their beauty. The spellbound minds of those worshipers always find a way to create and dedicate their creative urge to them. They depict their muse in canvas, in the words, through rhymes and rhythms. Singer Amanda Lear inspired famous surrealist painter Salvador Dali. Dora Maar was the muse of none other than Pablo Picasso.Camille Claudel reverberated August Rodin for his curls and curves in his great sculptures. George Sand drove Chopin to create every canorous note in piano.Henry Miller crocheted his beautiful dreams Anais Nin is his mind.Famous Indian painter Maqbul Fida Hussein found his colours and forms in actress Madhuri Dixit. And the list goes on.

Through out the ages, muses- the elegant beautiful human creature have been mesmerizing different creative people of different genre to remain in their pinnacle of creativity with cool presence in their mind. They provide obsessions, they create waves of imagination, they inspire them with love beauty and elixir of creative lives.

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