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a person you mistake for inspiration when really it's just your own obsession wearing their face
means To muse is to ponder something thoughtfully; as a noun, a muse is a person or thing that serves as a source of artistic inspiration.
from From the Greek Mousa, the nine Muses being goddesses who presided over the arts and sciences — the same root that gives us 'music' and 'museum' (literally a 'seat of the Muses'). The verb 'to muse,' meaning to ponder, may come from the same family through Old French muser, 'to loiter or daydream,' though some trace that sense to a different root meaning 'to sniff about' like a dog at a scent — wandering, nose to the air, waiting for something to arrive.
- original nine
- Greek goddesses divided up all arts and sciences
- root word
- shares ancestry with museum and music
- job hazard
- muses rarely consent to being one
- reverse risk
- art outlives the relationship that sparked it
muse magazine — children's science and nature magazine published by cricket media since 1996