Top 100 Quotes About Muse
#1. He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen.
Plato
#2. My wife Ricky is my muse. Her personal style and natural beauty have always been my inspiration.
Ralph Lauren
#4. Who loves not music and the heavenly muse, That man God hates.
John Dowland
#5. I am my own muse, the subject I know best.
Frida Kahlo
#6. 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
#7. It's really just paint. I muse on that, sometimes, Jamie. When I can't sleep. How a little paint can make shallow water seem deep.
Stephen King
#8. Sometimes, when you sleep with the enemy, waking up is the hardest part." ~ Muse
Pippa DaCosta
#9. Starlight beats when heart twinkles
Youthful sky beyond cloudy wrinkles
Muse of glory to flame the night
Verse inscribed as written light
Munia Khan
#11. Maybe she was a little dark but she sort of sparkled with it.
Jacob about Muse
Z.A. Maxfield
#14. I talk to myself. It's my worst habit. I often muse aloud, or, when people drive me crazy, I curse them aloud. I might do a ranting monologue about how pissed off I am about them, occasionally forgetting that they might still be in the room; now, that's weird!
Monique Roffey
#15. Art is the extended arm of your imagination, The feast of inspiration for your muse. Art isn't just creativity, its a way of life.
Sarah Curran
#16. Then I knew: this wasn't just a passion I felt for my model. My feelings about him had nothing to do with how his looks inspired me; he was far more than a muse. With every stroke of pencil and crayon, I had drawn Will into my heart.
I was in love with him.
Sharon Biggs Waller
#17. will to create. Yes" - as if she expected disagreement - "the will, because it is an act of will. It's more than being called upon by some convenient artistic muse. It's making a decision to offer up a bit of one's essence to the judgement of others.
Elizabeth George
#18. I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.
Alice Walker
#19. You can wait forever for the muse to sit on your shoulder, but most of the time you know what has to be done and inspiration is not going to help you.
Nick Hornby
#20. Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figure it out.
Jasper Fforde
#21. When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.
Euripides
#22. I guess my husband is a muse as well.
Tori Amos
#23. You're impossible. You're a murdering son-of-a-bitch. You get off on pain and control and fucking up peoples' lives. You lie through your teeth. You wouldn't know the truth if it crawled up your ass and bit you on the balls." ~ Muse to Akil
Pippa DaCosta
#24. I curled my lip at the sight of sizzling human hair and skin clinging to my demon flesh. Damn, I'd have given anything to be back in Boston, sipping chai tea latte." ~ Muse, Ties That Bind, #5 The Veil Series.
Pippa DaCosta
#25. In spite of Virtue and the Muse,
Nemesis will have her dues,
And all our struggles and our toils
Tighter wind the giant coils.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#26. It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.
Alan Moore
#27. I want the principles of a timeless muse, I want to eradicate my negative views.
Lou Reed
#28. My thesis is that the language of poetic myth anciently current in the Mediterranean and Northern Europe was a magical language bound up with popular religious ceremonies in honour of the Moon-goddess, or Muse,
Robert Graves
#30. Sing in me, o Muse, of that small minority of men who are secure enough in their masculinity to use the feminine third-person singular!
Mary Norris
#31. Muse. Mu-se. It's a great thing, for someone to feel that they can draw inspiration from you. And I don't think it's necessarily a man 'taking' from a woman. It can go both ways, both can stimulate, excite.
Chloe Sevigny
#32. 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
#33. She rose on her tiptoes and brushed a slow kiss to his lips. "This doesn't have to be a relationship, okay? Just let me be your muse."
He bent to taste her again and smiled. "And I'll be your Guardian.
Lisa Kessler
#34. I am told not to let the tone of this narrative become too dark. A certain 400-pound muse will park his 150-pound ass on me by way of editorial comment, and there is always the threat of his urine-filled cat.
Dean Koontz
#35. 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
#36. Often the Muse will not respond to direct and logical requests. She must be lured in with the playful and gentle.
Jill Badonsky
#37. A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
G. Willow Wilson
#39. Start writing, and the muse will come. Not every time, but keep at it, and the muse will come enough for you to get the initial writing done.
Sam Barry
#40. I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.
Jackie DeShannon
#41. It inspired all sorts of whims and fancies that I ultimately wove into a fairy tale complete with muse, the earth, the moon, some famous inventors, a dog and a rabbit.
Kit Williams
#42. 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
#43. First coffee, then a bowel movement. Then the Muse joins me.
Gore Vidal
#44. I'm only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.
May Sarton
#46. I get the niggling feeling in my belly that says it's time for a new song. It hits at the most random, inopportune times. Fucking creative muse bitch. I stand up quick and grab a pen from the desk in the corner, flipping my arm over and finding a space between the tattoos.
C.M. Stunich
#47. Perhaps it's time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not accomplishments, are what's important in life.
Aron Ralston
#48. To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.
Ray Bradbury
#49. Muse is not to be so easily dismissed. She is quite capable of turning your insides to ash before you can draw breath to apologize.
Pippa DaCosta
#50. There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
Walter Benjamin
#51. Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted.
Joseph Campbell
#52. Being human was a lot more difficult than it looked. Demon was easy. Demon was simple. Human was ... terrifying. Muse
Pippa DaCosta
#53. I was Versace's muse, I was Valentino's muse, I was Alaia's muse, Lancetti's muse, Calvin Klein's, Halston's. I could go on and on.
Janice Dickinson
#54. She is my inspiration. My muse. My obsession.
Amy Plum
#55. The adventure of composition is a mystery. The muse has her ways, she hides from you, comes for you in the middle of the night, at midday, at dawn. You must believe wholeheartedly in this divine power. Its an elusive gift that can appear at any time, anywhere. Artists are in awe of it.
Mickey Hart
#56. I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night,
Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down
The dark descent, and up to reascend ...
John Milton
#57. 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
#58. Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways,
who was driven far journeys
Homer
#59. Muse grabbed the envelope. "Everything in here?" Chamique frowned. "Oh, no, you did not just ask me that." Muse
Harlan Coben
#60. Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms.
Lord Byron
#61. Was there a magical love-of-the-dance moment, when the muse Terpsichore called to us and we lifted our arms and spun at one with the divine music of the Universe? I think not. Although pride and obsession can feel like love, I guess.
Meg Howrey
#62. Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.
Homer
#63. In short, if the Muse exists, she does not whisper to the untalented.
Steven Pressfield
#64. The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
Damien Rice
#65. I need to feel you as a man does a woman. You have no idea what it costs me to say these things to you. You cannot fathom what it means. I need you. I lay the truth before you. Would you turn me away? Right here and now, Muse, I am but a man.
Pippa DaCosta
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. Sing, Muse, of high, moulded ceilings and built-in bookcases chockablock with hardcovers!
Garth Risk Hallberg
#69. Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.
Stana Katic
#70. Now the birds & trees & the moroccan kitties are my muse.
Craig Thompson
#71. We cannot read the same works forever. Our honey-moon, even though we wed the Muse, must come to an end; and it is followed by indifference, if not by disgust.
William Hazlitt
#72. For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue - that I had to do the job myself.
Anais Nin
#73. I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts babe we know it, that you weren't much of a muse, but then, I weren't much of a poet.
Nick Cave
#74. Sweet the young muse with love intense,
Which smiles o'er sleeping innocence.
Christopher Smart
#75. Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader browner shade; Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think.
Thomas Gray
#76. In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself.
Katie Roiphe
#77. 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
#78. As we've grown 'The Daily Muse' and met contacts who want to collaborate with us, knowing who does what has helped us be clear on who we want our partners to connect with - and makes us look buttoned up, too. SEO firm? Talk to our COO. An editor from the 'Huffington Post?' Meet our Editor-in-Chief.
Kathryn Minshew
#79. If you hurt Muse, I will hunt you down, use every rusted weapon I own, cut off your precious parts and feed them to the hellhounds. Ryder
Pippa DaCosta
#80. I'll be blasted', he said, 'if I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Nick Greene or the Muse. Bad, good, or indifferent, I'll write, from this day forward, to please myself
Virginia Woolf
#81. Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.
Plato
#82. American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are as various as your land.
Stephen Vincent Benet
#83. It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. But even if you succeed, you lose, because you've sold out your Muse, and your Muse is you, the best part of yourself, where your finest and only true work comes from.
Steven Pressfield
#84. For me, a muse is someone who looks glamorous but is quite passive, whereas I was very hard-working. I worked from 9am to sometimes 9pm, or even 2am. I certainly wasn't passive
Loulou De La Falaise
#86. I'm not a big fan of inspiration. I'm too old to sit and wait for the muse to give me a little kiss ... I write a lot, and I'm not afraid to make mistakes or to write badly. I can alsways fix something weak and dull. But I can't fix a blank page.
Ron Koertge
#87. The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on.
Robin Williams
#88. [S]he was my Muse, my alcoholic's bourbon on the rocks: irresistible.
Claire Messud
#90. In the presence of my muse, I no longer NEEDED to draw.
Craig Thompson
#91. Sophy, strongly practical, could not feel that Mr. Fawnhope would make a satisfactory husband, for he lacked visible means of support, and was apt, when under the influence of his Muse, to forget such mundane considerations as dinner-engagements, or the delivery of important messages.
Georgette Heyer
#92. Muse is going to be part of everyday life as an indispensable tool helping people overcome mental, physical and emotional barriers. It's going to allow us to free ourselves in ways we never thought possible.
Ariel Garten
#93. The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
William Faulkner
#94. I understood that synergistic dance between photographer and object - 'muse,' if you will, 'model,' whatever you call us. It's that silent language of communication, like being psychic with each other.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
#95. Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
Susan Sontag
#96. The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.
Horace
#97. Audrey, if you had the choice, would you rather be his muse or be in his arms?" "I want to be both. I know it's the exception rather than the rule, but I can't hepl what I want.
Lang Leav
#98. The muse is the mystic force, but you are the master.
A.D. Posey
#99. Today there are bars of light on the rug, but Muse Cat prefers his tomato box where he can dream in private ...
John Geddes
#100. Virtue runs before the muse,
and defies her skill;
she is rapt and doth refuse
to wait a painter's will.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
