The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2022 by HarperCollins Publishers. The reconstructed form *montwa, the ancestor of Greek Mousa, also comes from this root and probably originally referred to "mental power" that enables poets to craft verses -the Muses were the Greek poets' divinized conceptions of the faculties that help them to create and recite poetry. Greek mn ēmosun ē is derived from the root *mn ā-, an extended form of the Greek and Indo-European root *men-, "to think." This is the root from which English also gets the words amnesia (from Greek), mental (from Latin), and mind (from Germanic). Her name is simply the Greek noun mn ēmosun ē, "memory" -the faculty of memory was indeed the mother of invention for the ancient Greek professional poets and bards whose job it was to compose new poems in traditional styles on festive occasions, to recite the verses of Homer, and to improvise material whenever they had a memory lapse. As to the further origins of this form, a clue is provided by the name of Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory and mother of the Muses. In Greek dialects, this word is found in the variant forms m ōsa and moisa, and together these indicate that the Greek word comes from an original *montwa. The word Muse comes from Latin M ūsa, which in turn is from Greek Mousa. The birds sing me their songs and the wind whispers inspiration into my ears.įind your source of inspiration and let her guide you into the world of Spiritual Creativity.Word History: Ever since Chaucer first mentions the Muses in a work from around 1390, English poets have invoked these goddesses like so many other versifiers since the days of Homer, who begins both The Iliad and The Odyssey with an invocation of his Muse. Now I know that the only thing I have to do is put on my boots and take a walk in the forest. I would sit there and not get up until I had defeated that blank page. In the past, I would spend hours in front of my screen waiting until inspiration decided to knock on my door. With Nature as my muse, it’s very important to connect with her on a soul level because from there, I create. They are the source of my development and my spiritual growth.Ĭreativity demands personal development and it is this development which brings me closer to my true self. Both of them are teaching me life lessons and are helping me clear my mind. Nature and being Creative are two of my most favourite things in the world. Any of the nine daughters of Mnemosyne and Zeus, each of whom presided over a different art or science. Now twenty years later, my “school creativity” has grown into something else, something I like to call ‘spiritual creativity.’ Muse definition: To be absorbed in one's thoughts engage in thought. The sounds of drums that were coming from our library were being made by 15 six-year-olds beating to the rhythm of their hearts. It was the perfect way to wind down after a week of full of lessons-for both the children and the teachers. If you would walk through our school on those Friday afternoons, you would find joy.Īfter lunch, all the classrooms would leave their doors open and you could feel the excitement in the air. The delicious scent of homemade bread that was being made in the fifth class could be smelled through the whole school. The teachers were totally different people in those two hours: they were more kind, relaxed and they laughed a lot. Unleashing creative energy in our classrooms brought a feeling of freedom. The whole school would put away their books, chalkboards were wiped clean, and every classroom would spend the last two hours of the week on creating things. They were usually beautiful women that would give you inspiration. The last two hours on Friday afternoon at my elementary school were known as creative hours. In ancient Greek religion and mythology, the Muses ( Ancient Greek:, romanized : Moûsai, Greek:, romanized : Múses) are the inspirational goddesses of literature, science, and the arts. Definition of you are my muse Muses come from Greek mythology. When I felt anxious or overly stimulated it helped me find my calm. It gave me the ways to express my thoughts and feelings. To me the world was too loud and too busy.Ĭreativity saved me. The context clues that support the definition of Muse as an 'inspiration for writing poetry are Spendst thou thy fury on some worthless song, the ear that doth thy lays esteem and 'gives thy pen both skill and argument.Therefore, options B, C, and D are correct. I had trouble with finding ways to express myself in the extroverted world I lived in.
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