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A muse is a person who provides creative inspiration to a person of the arts (such as a writer, artist, composer, and so on) or sometimes in the sciences. In the course of history, these have usually (but not necessarily) been women. The term is derived from the Muses, ancient Greek goddesses of inspiration. Human muses are woven throughout ...
You’ve come to the right place. We’ve compiled a list of over 100 short inspirational quotes that’ll help motivate and excite you in your daily life.
In Romantic literature and criticism, in particular, the usage of afflatus was revived for the mystical form of poetic inspiration tied to genius, such as the story Samuel Taylor Coleridge offered for the composition of "Kubla Khan". The frequent use of the Aeolian harp as a symbol for the poet was a play on the renewed emphasis on afflatus.
Some theorists use the term "effort" rather than "intensity" for this component. [48] The strength of a motivational state also affects whether it is translated into action. One theory states that different motivational states compete with each other and that only the behavior with the highest net force of motivation is put into action. [49]
Deborah G. Plant, a scholar of Black literature, found more personal inspiration for her new book, 'Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All.'
A quotation is the repetition of a sentence, phrase, or passage from speech or text that someone has said or written. [1] In oral speech, it is the representation of an utterance (i.e. of something that a speaker actually said) that is introduced by a quotative marker, such as a verb of saying.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Vice President Kamala Harris isn’t “a worthy president” because of her word-salad skills and policy flip-flopping — suggesting she can’t even “put together ...
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