<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=553292" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Four Muses</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">~Inspiration<br>~Illumination<br>~Incubation<br>~ Modification</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The four primordial states of consciousness<br>That randomly express artistic creativity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Painting, sculpting, composing, <br>Crocheting a pastoral tapestry<br>With billions of hummingbird feathers -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Every artist experiences <br>Their affecting pulsion, <br>None predominating<br>Then suddenly one leading<br>And reaching fruition.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Four conditional factors, <br>Mind enhancers<br>Transforming vision to product, <br>Self-consuming guides of intellect: <br>They govern the change<br>From thought to deed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">~ Inspiration, <br>Inseparable portion of my Self, <br>Formulates desire and need, <br>The coveting of a precious concept, <br>The cradling of a newborn thought.<br>Suggestion of my imaginary stimulus, <br>Triggers my fancy<br>To search the void of my brain<br>For a minuscule fresh seed of notion, <br>Asking for a response.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">~ Illumination<br>Recognizes my worthiness<br>And seeks the ways and means<br>Of aiding the inspiration, <br>Preparing my mind for an embryo solution, <br>Kindling the flame of discarded concepts<br>And giving new life with reason.<br>It brightens my playing field and<br>Inspires the game, <br>Shining a spotlight on the tiny idea<br>And throwing it into the central circus ring<br>For the audience of my obscured mind, <br>To see and appreciate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">~ Incubation<br>Is what my Self questions, <br>My mental detective<br>That seeks to disprove<br>Or alienate the idea.<br>Yet, if the seed survives<br>The withering inquisition, <br>It automatically matures<br>With sufficient strength<br>To endure manipulation<br>And unyielding critiques.<br>Impetus forces change, <br>The final viewable realization.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">~ Modification<br>Is the culminating act, <br>A change for the senses to accept<br>It dwells at the end, <br>Suffering alteration: <br>Hindsight more prevailing<br>Than foresight -<br>My looming Atropos.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Daubmir+Nadir">Daubmir Nadir</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=553292" data-title="Four Muses de Daubmir Nadir" data-description="~Inspiration ~Illumination ~Incubation ~ Modification The four primordial states of consciousness That randomly express artistic creativity. Painting, sculpting, composing, Crocheting a pastoral tapestry With billions of hummingbird feathers - ..."></div> </div> </div>

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