1. muse - Noun
2. muse - Verb
A gap or hole in a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.
One of the nine goddesses who presided over song and the different kinds of poetry, and also the arts and sciences; -- often used in the plural.
A particular power and practice of poetry.
A poet; a bard.
To think closely; to study in silence; to meditate.
To be absent in mind; to be so occupied in study or contemplation as not to observe passing scenes or things present; to be in a brown study.
To wonder.
To think on; to meditate on.
To wonder at.
Contemplation which abstracts the mind from passing scenes; absorbing thought; hence, absence of mind; a brown study.
Wonder, or admiration.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIllustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse. Edmund Waller
I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better. Frida Kahlo
I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time. John Updike
Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal. William S. Burroughs
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage. Alexander Pope
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention. William Shakespeare