
The Muses
In Our Time
The Relationship Between Poet and Muse
Before Plato, poets were seen as passive and irrational instruments of the muses. The muse is likened to a magnet which has an attractive force on the poet. And just as the muse influences, the poet takes possession of the poet to act in this wild way. But the creativity can only happen if the poet is in this kind of passive irrational state.
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