![]() It is difficult to make the transition from a muse to an artist.Īnd they no longer muse about which nations might be next on the target list, disappointing their most fervent neoconservative supporters as often as they please them.Ĭalliope, the muse of epic poetry, is a frequent guest in the Council of States, whose members are allowed to speak without time limits. In death as in life fashion editor and muse Isabella Blow continues to fascinate. ![]() Opportunities do not wait for those who muse and pause for deliberation. She was the muse and lover of the French poet and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire. The period between Christmas and New Year is a strange form of no man's land where we muse and watch the rain fall. So far since the bells chimed midnight and the party poppers popped, my creative muse has been sleeping on the job. My happy muse was interrupted by the prickly, nettling sensation of being watched. Many privately muse that if the government insists on outlawing hunting, then outlaws they are prepared to be. The muse may crave a spot of deprivation and misery every now and then to spark the old imagination, but there are limits.ĭoes the muse ever give up, other than when dissipation takes hold of the creative artist concerned? I don't think my blogging muse has quite returned yet, so standby for some more inane waffle. My dear, my darling, my love, the question is not when have you ever been my muse, but when have you ever not been my muse.Īlthough you may sometimes resent the pressure of being everybody's muse or ray of sunshine, you try not to let it show. It's not only his pet muse these days, but the very definition of his work. Back home, I make breakfast for Rose, who is with child. The figure and face of the woman have been the inspirational muse for artists over the centuries.īut the tutelary divinity here is neither Thalia, the muse of comedy, nor Melpomene, the muse of tragedy, but Morpheus, the god of sleep. It's tempting to see parallels between their rich, expressionist daubs and the emotionally charged abstractions of Perelman's restless muse. It offers an opportunity to drink deep of the Gothic atmosphere and muse on the blurry boundaries between truth and illusion. The artist's restless muse and critical intellect enable a confrontation with, and the effort to amend, the society's limiting traditions. My personal favorite was a four-foot tall statue of Terpsichore, the Greek muse of dancing who bore the Sirens. Since then, this perennially restless muse has wandered through a maze of creative highways and byways. They all bespeak a past that didn't have the Valley's problems of today that I'll muse about over the next few weeks. Harriet Smithson may have been the muse who inspired Berlioz's most celebrated symphony but she herself dies in obscurity and misery. It proves they can grow old just as contentiously as they grew up, that theirs is not a muse whom custom can wither.īut her main role would be as Hirschfeld's muse and playmate, his elfin inamorata, the one editor to whom he paid devoted attention. ![]() The poet's traditional invocation of the muse calls her into being, to sing to him.Īlmost 50 years after being immortalised by the poet Philip Larkin in a famous anthology, the muse who inspired him is to speak on his legacy. In the same way that I turned in my external muse a few weeks ago, it's time for me to stop beating myself up over the way I broke his heart. ![]() ![]() The couple met in Scotland about five years ago and Annabel has become something of a muse for him. ![]()
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