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 in, muses, popular and/or culture:
“The Muses inspire art and pretend not to notice when Mammon buys it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“here I ame in Kent and Christendome
Emong the muses where I rede and ryme;”
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“If they have a popular thought they have to go into a darkened room and lie down until it passes.”
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“We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.”
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