Andrew, you brought to mind this wonderful quote by Lessing:
“If God held all truth concealed in his right hand, and in his left hand the persistent striving after the truth . . . and should say, ‘Choose!’ I should humbly bow before his left hand and say, ‘Father, give me the striving. For pure truth is for thee alone’.”
Julie, I am with you, I think there is no empirical answer. I do believe that a Muse can be both a person, an actual human being, and an inscrutable power, combined in a way we cannot understand. I believe that because that is my experience...
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