Know your muse...

Athena visits Apollo and the Muses by Bartholomeus Spranger (16th century)


Here you can find a wonderful essay "Love and Longing: The World of Poets and Muses" by Robin Frederick. An excerpt:

Perhaps the best way to describe an encounter with the muse is this: somewhere in your past there is a person who comes back to you in dreams. Maybe you barely knew them, perhaps it was only a brief encounter but you have never forgotten the face, the moment, the sudden sense of recognition. The image of this person is surrounded with a special quality of light - a luminous glow that is not present in other memories. There is something magical and transformative about it. This is the face of the muse. The image lives on in your memory, evoking a sense of yearning and the desire to be worthy of this luminous being. The statement that truly reveals the presence of a muse is: "Everything I did, I did for you."

She's a singer/songwriter, so there's some nice mp3 stuff here too.

Go to: Robin Frederick