Top 100 Quotes About The Muse
#1. Writing for the love of writing. My muse makes no apologies under this pen name. ;)
Amanda Wylde
#2. But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
#3. 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
#4. If we are transparent, with nothing to hide, the gap between language and being disappears. Then the Muse can speak.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
#5. With no companion but the constant Muse, Who sought me when I needed her ah, when Did I not need her, solitary else?
Richard Henry Stoddard
#6. Make a habit of inviting demons over?" "Yeah, actually. Wednesdays are movie nights. They bring the snacks.
Pippa DaCosta
#7. Homer and Shakespeare and Milton and Marvell and Wordsworth are but the rustling of leaves and crackling of twigs in the forest, and there is not yet the sound of any bird. The Muse has never lifted up her voice to sing.
Henry David Thoreau
#8. You think this is funny?" I snorted. "You would. Your sense of humor is so dark, even the lesser demons don't get you.
Pippa DaCosta
#9. The seat of the Celtic Muse is in the mist of the secret and solitary hill, and her voice in the murmur of the mountain stream.
Walter Scott
#10. The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I don't understand people who get up at 9 o'clock in the morning, put on the coffee and sit down to write.
Glen Hansard
#11. Hasten Little Maiden
...
stop and listen
for pearls of wisdom
stop and listen
as the river glistens ...
Muse
#12. The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.
Stephen King
#13. She wanted to be someone's muse - to be worshipped and adored, body and soul. She wanted to play Beatrice to a dashing and noble Dante and to inhabit Paradise with him forever. And to live a life that would rival the beauty of Botticelli's illustrations.
Sylvain Reynard
#14. 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
#15. Grey time-worn marbles Hold the pure Muses. In their cool gallery, By yellow Tiber, They still look fair.
Matthew Arnold
#16. And when her biographer says of an Italian woman poet, 'during some years her Muse was intermitted,' we do not wonder at the fact when he casually mentions her ten children.
Anna Garlin Spencer
#17. You want to write? Write.
Don't wait for the muse. Write.
Just plant your butt in a chair and write.
James V. Smith Jr.
#18. Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
Robert Genn
#19. True poetry (inspired by the Muse and her prime symbol, the moon) even today is a survival, or intuitive re-creation, of the ancient Goddess-worship.
Robert Graves
#20. Parting
One is strong, a child now grown
The other weak, a parent aged
-
The strong once feeble
The weak once mighty
-
Time, the infinity
has marked them ...
Muse
#21. No muse shoots darts of insight into the unsuspecting artist.
Eric Maisel
#22. What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks 'the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,'.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.
Maya Angelou
#23. The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.
Ernie Isley
#24. Go get your gun because God won't show.
He sent a poet instead.
The Don Quixote of the ICU. Quite impressive for a cripple. Munchhausen by proxy of a muse.
Tempt not a desperate man. This split lip is for you. I traded it for an outdated tooth.
Keith Buckley
#25. Ode to the Chamber
... linger here amidst the chamber
in which we embrace our love
talk to me of sonnets
and call me turtledove ...
Muse
#26. I Cannot Remember You
... engulfed in liquid amnesia
I cannot fight the tide
Muse
#27. Poetry is not a mere expression of a poet's self, but an enchantment, a spell of the muse, the inspiration. Poetry is thus magic and magic is poetry.
Shilpa Sandesh
#28. 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
#29. Only a few hairline fractures around his eyes and lips spoke of the torment he'd been through. I wanted to smooth those lines away, and wished it was that easy to erase the scars of our past." ~ Muse, Drowning In The Dark #4 The Veil Series.
Pippa DaCosta
#30. Forcing the muse to let thoughts flow; equals to pushing a child, into labor.
Aniruddha Sastikar
#32. Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
Eliza Farnham
#33. I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no idea, but I have learned to surrender to the muse. I become obsessed with a theme or with certain stories; they haunt me for years, and finally, I write them.
Isabel Allende
#34. The reader's feedback is the muse for great written works of art.
Sarah Scott
#36. For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them.
Tom Glazer
#37. in astronomy class, the muse urania angrily watches a panel of men talk about the wonders of the stars as though they created them.
Salma Deera
#38. The Muses inspire art and pretend not to notice when Mammon buys it.
Mason Cooley
#39. Haven't you ever heard of an artist's muse?" the barman asked. "They all seem to either have one or want one. Me, all I want is peace and quiet.
Louise Penny
#40. You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.
Robert Breault
#41. Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.
Robert Genn
#42. Calico Kitty
My calico kitty
was painted and primed
she could prowl
the night away ~
without spending a dime...
Muse
#44. 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
#45. Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
#46. Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives in him; to this poet she threw an unexpected ladder in the middle of the city and ordained, 'Climb!
Anais Nin
#47. I think of many people and no one as a muse. I love the way Sofia looks always, and I love the way Kim looks always. Fashion may be part of their world, but it's not their whole life. It's not everything.
Marc Jacobs
#48. One must give himself completely to his art and not hold back. Throw caution to the wind. Embrace the muse. Make love to your art.
Harley King
#49. I can assure you, as anyone who has ever met a muse knows, the best way to get a muse to hang around is to show you could be having fun without her.
Z.A. Maxfield
#50. Yes. I guess it's the foolish romantic in me, but you see, I don't think that sex is my Muse.
Peter Murphy
#51. There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
Sappho
#52. I love getting older," I muse as I carefully begin to peel the layers away. "You're closer to death, but there are presents.
Abby McDonald
#53. 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
#54. Today I fed him right off the bat, and only checked Facebook twice.
Chila Woychik
#55. The River Swish
Deftly maneuvered through
the dark green abyss ~
The wooden raft seemed
in tune with this ~
Canorous rush of the
river swish....
Muse
#56. 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
#57. You say, "Something important really happened here. I really had hold of something I was visited by the muse." And that's enough to make you continue the months and years to finish the whole book.
Alan Lightman
#58. Remember, the Muse favors working stiffs. She hates prima donnas. To the gods the supreme sin is not rape or murder, but pride. To think of yourself as a mercenary, a gun for hire, implants the proper humility. It purges pride and preciousness.
Steven Pressfield
#59. Don't keep your Muse locked up in the closet. Set them free to dance across the page and what they create will be a masterpiece.
Michelle C. Hillstrom
#60. The muse is fickle; ergo, when she knocks, ANSWER! It may take a while, but trust me, she WILL knock. In the meantime, keep your ear pressed firmly to the door.
Quentin R. Bufogle
#61. Muse is the brain-sensing headband that allows you to track your cognitive and emotional activity. It boosts your attention and helps you become more aware of the emotions that you're having.
Ariel Garten
#62. Fighting demons is what I do; real, and those in my head.
Pippa DaCosta
#63. I was the first to bring the Muse into my country.
Virgil
#64. Inspiration is a message-in-a-bo ttle from the distant shore, a window into the other world, a tap of the muse's finger, the grace of the gods. It comes when you least expect it ...
Phil Cousineau
#65. Muse is a tyrant. It gets you out of bed in the twilight of the morning and forces you to create something!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#66. [The Muse of our Fiction of the future] will lead you - if you are humble and honest with her - straight into a World of Working Men, crude of speech, swift of action, strong of passion, straight to the heart of a new life.
Frank Norris
#67. Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.
Alexander Pope
#68. The more I learn and read about the 10th Muse i realize what a great fan base and cult following she has. I'm going to try to live up to the fantastic image of the 10th Muse!
Cindy Margolis
#69. Days like today should come with a warning label, I muse. Today's Going to Suck! Skip the Coffee and Go Straight for the Alcohol.
Laura Kreitzer
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. I've found that depending on the amount of the check, disciplined inspiration can be called upon willingly. I think the name of the lesser known tenth muse was Dollar Dollar Bill Y'all.
Kevin Keck
#74. What do you do when you're swimming with sharks? You make sure you're the biggest, most badass thing in the pool.
Pippa DaCosta
#75. There is no wide road which leads to the Muses.
Propertius
#76. my poetry is merely a body.
you are the soul in my words.
Sanober Khan
#77. The first two, three, four weeks are wasted. I just show up in front of the computer. Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn't show up invited, eventually she just shows up.
Isabel Allende
#78. Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.
Jodi Picoult
#79. It's quite a pure relationship, designer and muse. I think a beautiful dress on the wrong woman could mean nothing. It has to be the right woman and the right clothes. That's why you need that personal touch.
Jason Wu
#80. Lollypop
... the passion contained merely kisses
placed upon lips, neck and cheek
these young lovers of the castle
of which our fairytale speaks ...
Muse
#81. It's now the British Muse's fables That lie on maidens' bedside tables And haunt their dreams. They worship now The Vampire with his pensive brow,
Alexander Pushkin
#82. Each of us may be a diamond-in-the-rough, needing only a muse and a change in circumstance to go from humble caterpillar to majestic butterfly." - Peter Whitmer, Ph.D. ~from The Inner Elvis: A Psychological Biography of Elvis Aaron Presley
Peter Whitmer
#83. At the mention of her name, my heart started beating faster. Dawn. Rusty. My muse.
Karina Halle
#84. I too am a poet who has found some favour with the Muse. I too have written songs. I too have heard the shepherds call me bard. But I take it from them with a grain of salt: I have the feeling that I cannot yet compare with Varius or Cinna, but cackle like a goose among melodious swans.
Virgil
#85. I thought I was a fool for no one;
But ooh baby I'm a fool for you;
You're the queen of the superficial;
how long before you tell the truth?
Matthew Bellamy
#86. 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
#87. My mother's English, and she always was fascinated by the desert.
Arizona Muse
#89. And no one thinks they are to blame. Why can't we see that when we bleed, we bleed the same?
Muse
#90. Alone with the Morlocks, thought Silenus. But not even Morlocks for company in the end. Only my muse. There
Dan Simmons
#91. The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal
Mark Twain
#92. Flames moved towards him
and dropped within
-
singed and marred
his tender skin ...
(the frightful plight tale)
Muse
#93. 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
#94. Be determined. Be persistent. Be consistent," the muse said. "Then he looked at me and winked. "Never give up, dumb-ass.
Lani Brown
#95. My muse has more projects on her wish list than I have hours in the day to write. #authorproblems
Michelle M. Pillow
#96. Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine:
A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.
Plato
#97. No one ever gets talker's block. No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say, and sits quietly, for days or weeks, until the muse hits, until the moment is right, until all the craziness in his life has died down.
Seth Godin
#98. I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
Arthur Rimbaud
#99. 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
#100. The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives
Alfred De Vigny
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