Muses In Popular Culture
The nine Muses of Greek mythology have been portrayed in many different modern fictional works. They are also the inspiration for an all-female Mardi Gras krewe in New Orleans, Louisiana that parades the Thursday before Mardi Gras, on what was traditionally called Momus Thursday, along the traditional Uptown route. Along the way, they cross streets bearing the names of each of the nine Muses.
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Famous quotes containing the words muses, popular and/or culture:
“If with light head erect I sing,
Though all the muses lend their force,
From my poor love of anything,
The verse is weak and shallow as its source.
But if with bended neck I grope,
Listening behind me for my wit,
With faith superior to hope,
More anxious to keep back than forward it,”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Party action should follow, not precede the creation of a dominant popular sentiment.”
—J. Ellen Foster (1840–1910)
“I am writing to resist the view that Europe and civilization are going to Hell. If I am being “crucified for an idea”Mthat is, the coherent idea around which my muddles accumulated—it is probably the idea that European culture ought to survive, that the best qualities of it ought to survive along with whatever cultures, in whatever universality. Against the propaganda of terror and the propaganda of luxury, have you a nice simple answer?”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)