Top 100 My Muse Quotes
#1. Writing for the love of writing. My muse makes no apologies under this pen name. ;)
Amanda Wylde
#2. At morning, I'm unruffled - I'll sit with my tea and Muse Cat beside me and listen to the soft chime of the grandfather clock ...
John Geddes
#3. Like all writers, my greatest inspiration, my ultimate muse, is a deadline.
Dave Barry
#4. Every woman I have known has actually deepened my spiritual awareness. Even if I have been a selfish man and treated them badly ... There were two women, I won't name them, who had a powerful religious effect on me. The ancient idea of a muse is there.
John Tavener
#5. My mom was my muse - she would buy me Italian 'Vogue.' I was this little fashion boy.
Nicola Formichetti
#7. I'm lucky with my skin - it doesn't require a lot of attention, so I keep things simple. And I drink a lot of water.
Arizona Muse
#8. Laughing in my ear is a muse amused by how I paint her whims on paper with silly words.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#10. Everyone always asks me who my muse is, or who's the girl I have in mind, which is such a hard question for me to answer because I feel like it's a sensibility that varies for each individual.
Alexander Wang
#11. I am privileged to have your illuminating presence in my life that adds etherealness to my existence!
Avijeet Das
#12. My muse is an ungrateful harlot who's abandoned me to actually come up with my own plots.
Richelle Mead
#14. Everyone has left me
except my muse,
that good nurse.
She stays in my hand,
a mild white mouse.
Anne Sexton
#15. Calico Kitty
My calico kitty
was painted and primed
she could prowl
the night away ~
without spending a dime...
Muse
#16. He suggested I pray to the Muse
get down on my knees and pray
right there in the corner and he
said he meant it literally
W.S. Merwin
#17. She [Kim Kardashian] was always my muse, now she's become other designers' muses.
Kanye West
#18. I sing to my wife; it helps me. She was my muse. I've written so many songs about her, to her, with references to her, and still do. She's a big part of my life. We were together for 33 years. It actually does me good - she's with me all that time in that way.
Ian McLagan
#19. Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.
Stevie Smith
#20. Yes. I guess it's the foolish romantic in me, but you see, I don't think that sex is my Muse.
Peter Murphy
#21. Music is forever. Music is life. Music is something worth believing in...Music is my words, my soul...my muse.
Madison Daniel
#22. I was wondering if you would like to come over and assist me in going over those photographs." Malcolm said without any preamble. His voice was distracted and distant, and it rankled me.
"I don't know," I told him. "Are you going to stick your tongue in my twat and then run away again?
Ava Lore
#23. If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, Wake up and write the book!
Kerry Greenwood
#24. Brynne was naturally submissive to me. She accepted what I wanted to give her - the Dom in me had found my muse, and it was just one more reason we were perfect together.
Raine Miller
#26. Fighting demons is what I do; real, and those in my head.
Pippa DaCosta
#27. I was the first to bring the Muse into my country.
Virgil
#28. But now my gracious numbers are decay'd, And my sick muse doth give another place. I grant, sweet love, thy lovely argument Deserves the travail of a worthier pen;
William Shakespeare
#29. There is something else at work here that is beyond me - and that is Laura. She has a life of her own. There is a magic in her. The muse is in her. And I'm lucky to have her in my life.
Genie Francis
#30. You're my problem! You're my solution! You're my my high; you're my low! You're my muse; you're my pain! It's you. Everything! Everything I do and think and breathe is you!
Jacinta Howard
#31. I had control issues, enough emotional baggage to excite a team of psychiatrists, and - thanks to my demon half - a penchant for snap decisions driven by instinct. And that was when my demon was subdued. When she came to the party, I was as stable as a nuclear reactor on meltdown.
Pippa DaCosta
#32. Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull
into a cup for others to drink wine from.
In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent man,
who doesn't know what he's about to do!
Rumi
#33. my poetry is merely a body.
you are the soul in my words.
Sanober Khan
#35. At the mention of her name, my heart started beating faster. Dawn. Rusty. My muse.
Karina Halle
#36. Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#37. My mother's English, and she always was fascinated by the desert.
Arizona Muse
#39. Deadlines help me, but my muse hates them. My muse functions in fits and starts, and tends to take very long vacations. Deadlines are like a hot poker to his ass. They force us both to sit down and write, which is what it takes to do this.
Alistair Cross
#40. Alone with the Morlocks, thought Silenus. But not even Morlocks for company in the end. Only my muse. There
Dan Simmons
#41. The truth, and nothing but the truth, is that dawn begins with a wrestling match with my soul and a systematic rejection of all the other useful possibilities a day offers. I make obeisance to the story, its characters, and the muse with burnt offerings.
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
#42. I ache not from need -
but from my heart's gluttony of you.
Muse
#43. My muse has more projects on her wish list than I have hours in the day to write. #authorproblems
Michelle M. Pillow
#44. She gave me hugs that were like oxygen to a dying man and uplifted my soul!
Avijeet Das
#45. I don't know if I've ever had a muse per se. I would say that the woman I'm inspired by exists more in my sketchbooks. She exists in my head.
Erdem Moralioglu
#46. Just when I figured out how to quiet the characters in my head, the multiple stories my creative muse wants me to write started screaming for attention!
L.M. Fields
#48. I get really antsy if I stay in one place too long. Universal was really supportive and understood that I needed to go across the Atlantic to reinvent myself and to find my voice, my muse.
Stella Soleil
#49. I was following my muse and I was very fortunate in having good people around me and it turned out to be a pretty good recording in my opinion.
Ronnie Montrose
#50. How....will I ever truly depict you?
You're perfect, my writing isn't.
Sanober Khan
#51. For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.
Alice Walker
#52. When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go ... The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back!
Judy Collins
#53. I'm never gonna step away from stand-up. I can't. That's what got me where I am, and that's also my muse. That's how I stay level-headed. That's what keeps me going.
Kevin Hart
#54. I have thought of you much, and have shared with you in thought much that has been elevating, stirring, and gay, so much so that it has been like living with my dear friends. If only you know how novel and strange that seems to an old hermit like me? How often it has made me laugh at myself!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#55. I'm truly, 100% guided by the characters and my Muse. If one of the characters suddenly decided to do something very different, I'd just go with it. It's much easier to let the Muse drive than for me to try to steer.
Lori Foster
#56. Lots of you know me as a lone, hard-bitten columnist, prone to lurking on deserted rocky promontories while searching for my muse.
Cynthia Heimel
#57. I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don't. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
Barbara Kingsolver
#59. The air I dragged through my teeth strummed with frequencies beyond human interpretation. Power. Chaos. Home.
Pippa DaCosta
#60. I don't write to chase away my demons ~
I wield my pen as a weapon...calling those bastards to war!
Muse
#62. It was my turn to smile. "I'm not all bad." Her grin faded, and her eyes cooled. "Half-blood turned Enforcer? You're about as bad as they get.
Pippa DaCosta
#63. Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend,
With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
Alexander Pope
#64. I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
Anthony Trollope
#65. I am who I need to be at this precise moment; this is my journey.
Muse En Lystrala
#66. I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling.
K.d. Lang
#67. My son is really good at being on trips with me. He understands what's going on. He grew up with me modeling, so it's quite normal for him to be on a shoot and in pictures because he sees me doing it.
Arizona Muse
#68. Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beaten track-fostered my career. I definitely don't want to abandon the genre but I also need to make sure I'm Dar Williams first.
Dar Williams
#69. When I was writing songs or performing or producing or dabbling in movies or even putting my career on hold to go to art school, I was just following my muse. A woman who did that then was criticized for having no direction. Today they call it versatility.
Jackie DeShannon
#70. There was only so much damage control I could do, and no amount of bull crap about escaped animals from the zoo was going to mask my very public display of power.
Pippa DaCosta
#71. I didn't have time to be anyone's muse ... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.
Leonora Carrington
#73. Soul Sister
Evoking all my inner goodness
with bastions of time
I cradle your heart
sisterly into mine ...
Muse
#74. When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.
Ovid
#75. That awesome moment when I'm in my zone. Comp on, internet off, WhatsApp muted, Word doc open, muse connected, fingers racing, time flying. Stomach groans with hunger but I can't drag myself away from the keyboard. By the time I take a break, I look back and I'm like, "Hell, yeah!
Tom Jalio
#76. Your gracefulness and feminine charms always so tender, you make my heart smile and wonder!
Avijeet Das
#77. People think of me as a stereotype: muse, privileged, decorative. Classically, the muses were the inspiration. They'd come and go - they wouldn't actually make things, get their hands dirty. I don't think I'm a muse, although I think I can help pull a trigger. I really like getting my hands dirty.
Amanda Harlech
#78. The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.
Alexander Pope
#79. I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me.
Tom Robbins
#80. A muse comes down from Mount Olympus and changes my attitude, cheering me up - it's an inner intuition, suddenly giving a breakthrough to be able to move ahead.
Robert Bateman
#81. Oops. Sorry, everybody. This book is not officially endorsed by the proper Muse. If it explodes in your hand, my bad.
Rick Riordan
#82. Cross my heart, and hope to die. Bake a demon in a pie.
Pippa DaCosta
#83. My muse changes all the time because I think every designer is a bit of a muse for themselves in a way - they just don't want to say it.
Donatella Versace
#84. My muse is my wife. It's not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a songwriter you need something to hang a song on, to give it some kind of presence and form. For me, Susie is that.
Nick Cave
#85. Hmmm," you muse out loud. Your voice is deep and carnal, a sound which sends new surges of desire rushing to my sex. "These balls are awfully dusty - if only I knew a little slut who was good at polishing balls ...
Felicity Brandon
#86. I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
Frida Kahlo
#87. I'd Drown For You
I opened my heart to you
A complete immersion
I offered my soul to you
A heavenly diversion
Muse
#88. And I want you now
I want you now
I'll feel my heart implode
And I'm breaking out
Escaping now
Feeling my faith erode
Muse
#89. Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now.
Chris Van Allsburg
#90. I remember sitting at the end of my mum's bed being fascinated by her ritual of getting dressed. It was a very methodical and considered process. I suppose you could say she was my first real muse.
Matthew Williamson
#91. I think I look for a muse in women. Someone I can just picture in my mind. Someone who respects herself and others. It isn't so much the things she says, it's mainly what she does. That's what make her all the more beautiful.
JC Chasez
#92. Tiny Giggles
Silly giggles of laughter
I store upon a shelf
I give some to other
I save some for myself
I am rich beyond all measure
Though not with worldly wealth
I store up these treasures
For my heart and soulful health.
Muse
#93. Now the birds & trees & the moroccan kitties are my muse.
Craig Thompson
#94. Agony's Plot
A zephyr skimmed
across my creamy skin
gently kissing
where the sun had been ...
Muse
#95. Sometimes I look back and think, "How did I write that? The book is smarter than I am!" I have never written strategically, but rather, followed the dictates of my muse.
Dan Millman
#96. I remember my mom saying that after you have a baby you get really thin. So you gain all that weight and then you just lose it and keep losing it.
Arizona Muse
#97. I do not know whether I would not like much better to have produced one perfectly formed child by intercourse with the muses than by intercourse with my wife.
Michel De Montaigne
#98. You are my favorite thing to do. ~ Oliver Sand
Chris Kuhn
#99. My mum is deeply, deeply a man's woman, a man's muse. Maybe because I'm a kid from the '80s, I'm a bit more dominant. I wanted to be the muse and the director also. I wanted to be the man and the woman.
Lou Doillon
#100. Oh, I'd kill him - once I figured out how to summon my demon before he could pin her down again. He was so going on my revenge list.
Pippa DaCosta
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