Examples of muse

• The initial and seemingly conventional conceit establishes the poet as reflective moon to the brighter sun, her muse.

• This person, in order to be 'truly' creative, must be liberated from constraints and allowed to operate as their muse suggests.

• The song 'just happened' - they are like an authentic genius composer visited by the muse and effortlessly delivered of a perfectly formed piece of music.

• Rather than honing and polishing a good musical idea, he wanted to follow the dreaming muse of his genius down every rabbit hole.

• Similarly, terms such as ' siren' and ' muse' are used almost exclusively to refer to women.

• Perhaps this actually helped us to avoid offering any hasty conclusions, and so we were left musing on a number of parallel themes.

• As a muse, she sometimes threatened and sometimes empowered.

• Perhaps, as defensive sceptics sometimes muse, our discovery of moral truths can be likened to our investigations of nature.