Shakespeare Muse Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Then he dipped his head, touched his mouth to mine and then lifted it away before he whispered, "Yeah, and I'm fucking glad you did. You were magnificent, sweetness. Fuckin' phenomenal.

Kristen Ashley

#4. Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?

William Shakespeare

#5. When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.

D.H. Lawrence

#6. O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

William Shakespeare

#7. I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.

Woody Allen

#8. Never durst a poet touch a pen to write
Until his ink was tempered with love's sighs.

William Shakespeare

#9. Criticism is just a focalized form of telling people exactly how they're wrong.

Kacie Crisp

#10. William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who does it behind the Dog and Crumpet?

Marc Norman

#11. Sometimes I catch myself if I'm shopping, and I'm like, 'I want to hide my thighs and my arms.' And then I kind of take a minute where I'm like, 'No, that's not really being kind to yourself. Maybe learn to embrace things that we're taught as women not to like.'

Kether Donohue

#12. The cost of assessing risk is now often greater than the cost of failing.

Joichi Ito

#13. Our job is to instigate, and by the grace of God, we did that, and certain people responded to this instigation.

Osama Bin Laden