Top 100 My Muse Quotes
#1. Writing for the love of writing. My muse makes no apologies under this pen name. ;)
Amanda Wylde
#2. My mom was my muse - she would buy me Italian 'Vogue.' I was this little fashion boy.
Nicola Formichetti
#5. 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
#6. My muse is an ungrateful harlot who's abandoned me to actually come up with my own plots.
Richelle Mead
#8. Everyone has left me
except my muse,
that good nurse.
She stays in my hand,
a mild white mouse.
Anne Sexton
#9. She [Kim Kardashian] was always my muse, now she's become other designers' muses.
Kanye West
#10. 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
#11. Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.
Stevie Smith
#12. Yes. I guess it's the foolish romantic in me, but you see, I don't think that sex is my Muse.
Peter Murphy
#13. Music is forever. Music is life. Music is something worth believing in...Music is my words, my soul...my muse.
Madison Daniel
#14. 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
#15. 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
#17. 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
#19. At the mention of her name, my heart started beating faster. Dawn. Rusty. My muse.
Karina Halle
#21. 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
#22. Alone with the Morlocks, thought Silenus. But not even Morlocks for company in the end. Only my muse. There
Dan Simmons
#23. My muse has more projects on her wish list than I have hours in the day to write. #authorproblems
Michelle M. Pillow
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend,
With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
Alexander Pope
#32. I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling.
K.d. Lang
#33. 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
#35. When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.
Ovid
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now.
Chris Van Allsburg
#40. Now the birds & trees & the moroccan kitties are my muse.
Craig Thompson
#41. 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
#42. In the presence of my muse, I no longer NEEDED to draw.
Craig Thompson
#43. [S]he was my Muse, my alcoholic's bourbon on the rocks: irresistible.
Claire Messud
#44. Outline of your frame
My paper witness your silhouette
Sipping in coffee
My muse, my Juliet.
Afternoon spent,
In hungry desires
Ending with a kiss
On your coffee lips.
Saiber
#45. She is my inspiration. My muse. My obsession.
Amy Plum
#46. Oh! not for the great departed, Who formed our country's laws, And not for the bravest-hearted, Who died in freedom's cause, And not for some living hero To whom all bend the knee, My muse would raise her song of praise - But for the man to be ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#47. She's my best friend." My muse, my brush, my artistry, my heart. All of its dead without her. "I love her.
A.G. Howard
#48. So I fancy my Muse says, when I wish to die, Oh no, Oh no, we are not yet friends enough, And Virtue also says: We are not yet friends enough.
Stevie Smith
#50. All I want for my birthday is a date with my muse Christina Aguilera Is that too much for a guy to ask for?
Ocean Crisstopher Poet
#51. My wife Ricky is my muse. Her personal style and natural beauty have always been my inspiration.
Ralph Lauren
#52. My Muse sits forlorn
She wishes she had not been born
She sits in the cold
No word she says is ever told.
Stevie Smith
#53. Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.
Philip Sidney
#54. When the door to my writing chamber gasps shut and the almost imperceptible sigh of a rose petal falls on my desk, I know that my muse is present.
Brandi L. Bates
#55. I think every man a woman meets brings with him a kernel of truth about the concentric notions of men. So when they ask if my stories are true. I laugh since it would imply that i used every man in my life as my muse.
Crystal Evans
#56. The truth: after just one novel, I had lost touch with my muse. The quietly desperate, jaded girl in my head had stopped slinging sardonic wit into my psyche.
Roz Bailey
#57. Become my muse. And let me paint you with my words...
Avijeet Das
#58. I attempt to connect with my muse and go on demon rides.
Keanu Reeves
#59. It's something I worry about when I'm working out. I don't want to get too fit. Because I don't want the new DaVinci of this Millennium to say, "You. I have found my muse. I have to sculpt you."
Jimmy Fallon
#60. William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who does it behind the Dog and Crumpet?
Marc Norman
#61. Let my muse
Fail of thy former helps, and only use
Her inadulterate strength. What's done by me
Hereafter shall smell of the lamp, not thee.
Robert Herrick
#62. My obsession. My muse. My enemy. "All
L.J. Shen
#64. So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain.
Michael Drayton
#65. I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.
Ray Bradbury
#66. 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
#67. Like all writers, my greatest inspiration, my ultimate muse, is a deadline.
Dave Barry
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. Laughing in my ear is a muse amused by how I paint her whims on paper with silly words.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#71. I am privileged to have your illuminating presence in my life that adds etherealness to my existence!
Avijeet Das
#72. Calico Kitty
My calico kitty
was painted and primed
she could prowl
the night away ~
without spending a dime...
Muse
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. Fighting demons is what I do; real, and those in my head.
Pippa DaCosta
#76. I was the first to bring the Muse into my country.
Virgil
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. my poetry is merely a body.
you are the soul in my words.
Sanober Khan
#82. 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
#83. My mother's English, and she always was fascinated by the desert.
Arizona Muse
#84. 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
#85. I ache not from need -
but from my heart's gluttony of you.
Muse
#86. She gave me hugs that were like oxygen to a dying man and uplifted my soul!
Avijeet Das
#87. 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
#88. 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
#90. How....will I ever truly depict you?
You're perfect, my writing isn't.
Sanober Khan
#91. 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
#92. 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
#94. The air I dragged through my teeth strummed with frequencies beyond human interpretation. Power. Chaos. Home.
Pippa DaCosta
#95. I don't write to chase away my demons ~
I wield my pen as a weapon...calling those bastards to war!
Muse
#97. 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
#98. I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
Anthony Trollope
#99. I am who I need to be at this precise moment; this is my journey.
Muse En Lystrala
#100. 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
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
