Top 73 Your Muse Quotes
#1. No writing? Your muse isn't speaking to you?'
'She rarely does. International cell charges and whatnot. Besides which, she's flighty and nearly impossible to understand. And she says I always misinterpret her intentions.'
'Muses. What can you do, right?
Kiersten White
#2. Muse [10w]
Poetry's a collaboration with your muse.
Silence!
Let her speak.
Beryl Dov
#3. Novices in the arts think you have to start with inspiration to write or paint or compose. In fact, you only have to start. Inspiration comes if you continue. Make the commitment to sit still in solitude several hours a day and inevitably your muse will visit.
Erica Jong
#4. Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.
Kristin Hannah
#5. Musicians have blocks, just like writers do. You'll find your muse again.
Colleen Hoover
#6. You're the world's muse, Trixie."
"I just want to be your muse."
"Done.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#7. Let passion be your muse. Let her guide and teach you to trust your instincts.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. I see it, Jack. Your muse is back. The thing that gave you passion, tormented you, and haunted you is back. You're reeling in ecstasy and dread. It's something you want, but can't ever have. And the one that brings the pain is pure, white as snow ... and standing in front of you.
H.M. Ward
#13. Into the wind we vary,
Our hearts free of youth,
Mold me into envy,
If I can't have your muse;
Under toe,
Walk to the throne,
After centuries of life.
Adrianna Stepiano
#14. Never wait for your muse. Train him/her to show up to work when you do by pushing on. It's a dominant submission thing.
Darynda Jones
#15. You couldn't sit in a room and wait for your muse to come and tickle you. Monday morning came, there was a dress rehearsal Thursday, you had to get that thing written. And it was grueling, but you learned to write.
Kevin Ashton
#16. Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings.
Robert Genn
#17. Your muse ain't singin' on your MTV? Can't even see him on your HD TV?
David Mutti Clark
#18. 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
#19. Nurture your mind, body and spirit. Grow your Muse and you will lead a fulfilled life.
Gail McMeekin
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. Don't waste your time or time will waste you.
Muse
#24. Too broken to belong
too weak to sing along
I'll comfort you my friend
Helping you to
Blow it all away
Muse
#25. Often the inspiration to write music comes from the voices in your head. You're not crazy. Just be thankful they are not making you rescue people in 20-degree weather at 2:30 in the morning in the forest.
Shannon L. Alder
#26. Cheat your landlord if you can
and must
but do not try to shortchange the Muse.
William S. Burroughs
#27. Everything about you is how I wanna be;
Your freedom comes naturally;
Everything about you resonates happiness;
Now I won't settle for less ...
Matthew Bellamy
#28. Every time I hear writers talk about 'the muse,' I just want to bitch-slap them. It's a job. Do your job.
Nora Roberts
#29. A sacrifice is not about expecting God to break the bond you have with another person. You make the sacrifice on your own because God is more important than the bond.
Shannon L. Alder
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. You should be more careful
when you move, my dear
what with you...
spilling moonlight
into my poem, with a mere
flick of your hand.
Sanober Khan
#33. This where you bring all your girls before you bury them in the woods?
Pippa DaCosta
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.
Henry David Thoreau
#38. When you craft something you create an eternity. When you tear down you hurt and you destroy, but anger doesn't last forever and soon your destruction is but dust under the muse of another's creation.
Matthew Williamson
#39. Your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse; he sweats a little in her service.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
#40. Follow through.
Make your dreams come true.
Don't give up the fight.
You will be alright.
Cause there's no one like you in the universe
Muse
#41. If you schlep a shit job everyday, keep and feed a little secret life
whether it's writing, art, running, music, your thoughts. It's yours.
Don Roff
#42. You do violence with your words if you force them - art is given - the words received, moment by moment from unseen hands - call it a Muse ...
John Geddes
#43. You want things to remain the same, which they never can, and so you're wounded by your own feelings & resentful others don't seem to care ...
John Geddes
#44. When you first awaken or before drifting off to sleep, quiet your mind, lift up your heart, muse, mull over, make discoveries. Consider, conceive, create, connect, concede that it all starts within.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#45. The best cure for cranial constipation is emotional fiber. Feel 'something', anything.
Pain, anger, joy; if your heart goes eerily cold or leaps erratically from your chest, your synaptic bowels will soon find release.
Muse
#46. Muse of poetry, come to his aid, I thought. Could the man produce one more metaphor of husbandry? He seemed to be trying.
"Green wood," I suggested, but even he sensed that there was something unfortunate about a metaphor for a king in which you dry out your royalty before you set fire to it.
Megan Whalen Turner
#47. Don't be different just for different's sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.
Morgan Freeman
#48. 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
#49. 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.
#50. GIVING - Applied tithing is so rewarding. When you give away your time, talent, and treasures you create a huge shift in your prosperity consciousness. So start where you are as you reach for where it is you want to be.
Lisa Washington
#51. 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
#52. I am privileged to have your illuminating presence in my life that adds etherealness to my existence!
Avijeet Das
#53. One day you will have vengeance, little half-blood. You will stand upon a wasteland littered with your dead kin and you will be free.
Pippa DaCosta
#54. I highly recommend getting your career established first and then having children.
Arizona Muse
#55. I say, dress to please yourself. Listen to your inner muse and take a chance. Wear something that says 'Here I am!' today.
Iris Apfel
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. Express your creativity. Delight in the mystery of your inner muse.
Cheryl Richardson
#62. I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
Arthur Rimbaud
#63. I am your own way of looking at things," she said. "When you allow me to live with you, every glance at the world around you will be a sort of salvation
William Stafford
#64. I worship at the temple of your body and without you, I'd have no art ...
John Geddes
#65. 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
#66. You're going to be unemployed if you really think you just have to sit around and wait for the muse to land on your shoulder.
Nora Roberts
#67. Soul Sister
Evoking all my inner goodness
with bastions of time
I cradle your heart
sisterly into mine ...
Muse
#68. Your gracefulness and feminine charms always so tender, you make my heart smile and wonder!
Avijeet Das
#69. Oops. Sorry, everybody. This book is not officially endorsed by the proper Muse. If it explodes in your hand, my bad.
Rick Riordan
#71. 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
#72. I know not what it is about you that makes me go crazy but I do know that the radiance in your eyes is more dazzling than that in all the diamonds of this world!
Avijeet Das
#73. Discipline, not the Muse, results in productivity. If you write only when she beckons, your writing is not yours at all.
Kenneth Atchity
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