Thursday, November 26, 2009

Muse Muse where are you?

A Muse (according to Dictionary.com):
- the goddess or the power regarded as inspiring a poet, artist, thinker, or the like.
- the genius or powers characteristic of a poet.
- A guiding spirit.
- A source of inspiration.

A Muse can be a being, a person, a creature, something that can talk or is mute, can walk or is disabled, something that is 'real' or imaginary, something that is inanimate or living, etc. It is a 'being' that is 'living' inside one's mind that creates inspiration to the artist inside of you. This Muse can be hiding and dormant within you until you finally come across it, or you could have known your Muse/s all along.

My Muses consist of many people/creatures:
- Luna Lovegood - the Harry Potter books by JK Rowling
- Edgar Allan Poe - author and poet
- Cyrano de Bergerac - the play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Rostand
- Dorian Gray - the book The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The Cheshire Cat - the movie Alice in Wonderland (though I'll be reading the book soon too so it'll be from the book as well)
- Spider-Man - the Amazing Spider-Man comics, etc
- Rorschach - the graphic novel Watchmen by Alan Moore
- Eric Draven - the movie The Crow (I will be reading the graphic novel soon)
and
- Haruko - the anime miniseries FLCL

All of these people/creatures have been in my mind since the day I met them and have never truly left. They have all influenced me and my artistic creations, sometime even going to far to having me write poems about them (specifically speaking about Rorschach, and I have written two about him so far and everytime I encounter him it makes me want to write another haha). Does anyone else have any Muse/s that help your creative lifestyle?

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