I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.


Ray Bradbury

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I am a Muse.
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Perversity is the muse of modern literature
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And strictly meditate the thankless Muse.
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Don't waste your time or time will waste you.
MUSE
...unquestioning automatons
blindly marching to the beat -
an eerie crunching sound
h...
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Chains

chains that hold me to the ground
chains that keep me solidly bound
chai...
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I know you've suffered, but I don't want you to hide...
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Hopelessly I'll love you endlessly, Hopelessly I'll give you everything, But I won't give you up, I ...
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Parting

One is strong, a child now grown
The other weak, a parent aged
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T...
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Butterfly Kisses

Aged imperfections
stitched upon my face
years and years of wi...
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Soul Sister

Evoking all my inner goodness
with bastions of time
I cradle your h...
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The Decision

...I wiped my hands on my pinafore
now sullied and stained
not cri...
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Saturated Arrogance

...imprisoned muses
cried to be free
she took away their qu...
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Ode to the Chamber

...linger here amidst the chamber
in which we embrace our love MUSE
Starlight
I will be chasing the starlight
Until the end of my life
I don't know if it...
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They will not force us
They will stop degrading us
They will not control us
We will b...
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Saturated Arrogance

...she rebuked those about her
in darkness did she dwell
a ...
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Depths of Friendship

...under fathoms deep
of dark and bitter cold
an eerie osc...
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White Iris

The iris danced across
the ancient Grecian skies
gliding with her em...
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Lose control
Increasing pace
Warped and bewitched
And time to erase

Whatev...
MUSE
...flames moved towards him
and dropped within
-
singed and marred
his tender s...
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Little Maiden Encounters Fear

Deepest regions walked she there
little maiden sweet a...
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Bring Down The Walls

I will bring down the walls
that surround me today.
I will...
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And I want you now
I want you now
I'll feel my heart implode
And I'm breaking out
MUSE
Tender Ember

...Barred and branded
to be forever unloved
I was a tender ember MUSE
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Come then, expressive silence, muse His praise.
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Everything about y...
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I'm never in control of my time during the workday.
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You should treat a muse like a fairy.
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He's just like his father. The muse comes and goes.
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Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.
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I'm not a huge fan of my work.
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
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No demon could ever care enough to let go." ~ Muse
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Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes in the air of a world that I know; therefore ...
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Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
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Sunsets we always liked because they only happen once and go away."
"But, Lena, that's sad." RAY BRADBURY
No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now.
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I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down...
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The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things tha...
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I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits ...
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When I was a boy in the midwest I used to go out and look at the stars at night and wonder about the...
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There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a ...
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Le cose che voi cercate, Montag, sono su questa terra, ma il solo modo per cui l’uomo medio potrà...
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Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still wr...
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Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind ...
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First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.
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I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.
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Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is ...
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Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. ...
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A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, i...
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And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn’t crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I...
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I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't hav...
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If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned ...
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One day many years ago a man walked along and stood in the sound of the ocean on a cold sunless shor...
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Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially,...
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We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we'v...
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I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.
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That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doi...
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The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.
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There were only the great diamonds and sapphires and emerald mists and velvet inks of space, with Go...
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Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born tha...
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Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow hi...
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The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or on...
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If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd ne...
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Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow hi...
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Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?
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Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
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You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers ...
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You fail only if you stop writing
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Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious...
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