The contemporaries of Cicero and Caesar, whose genius impelled them to awaken into new life the long silent muses of Italy, were conscious that the great effort demanded of them was to raise Latin verse to a similar perfection of form, diction, and musical cadence.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
A child is but an ordinary product of man and woman, but a poem is a divine product of the muses.
"Orientations"
William Somerset Maugham
In the middle of the seventeenth century William Blaew, of Amsterdam, invented an improved press, "fabricated nine of these new fashioned presses, set them all on a row in his Printing House and called each Press by the name of one of the muses."
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard