Muse famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
-- Alexander Pope -
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
-- Barbara Tuchman -
Once you start being a muse, you cannot stop being a muse.
-- Carine Roitfeld -
If a muse knocked at our studio door tomorrow, how many of us would even notice?
-- Carole Katchen -
The muse on my shoulder is very sensitive and does not abide claptrap of any kind... Only when I am totally immersed... absorbed in work... does she allow something magical to happen and I become aware of a faint heartbeat and gentle breath emanating from my brush.
-- Catherine Stock -
We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now.
-- Chris Van Allsburg -
Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony.
-- Dick Schaap -
Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
-- Edmund Waller -
The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.
-- Elizabeth Montagu -
No muse shoots darts of insight into the unsuspecting artist.
-- Eric Maisel -
Yet the companions of the Muses will keep their collective nose in my books And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune.
-- Ezra Pound -
I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
-- Frida Kahlo -
Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.
-- Homer -
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 -
Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.
-- Isabel Allende -
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 -
The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
-- James Broughton -
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 -
I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling.
-- K. D. Lang -
We knew when we started the Daily Muse, we wanted a recruiting-focused business model rather than an advertising-focused one. We felt like publishers were being forced to go to more and more extreme lengths to monetize through advertising.
-- Kathryn Minshew -
In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself.
-- Katie Roiphe -
I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.
-- Kristin Hersh -
I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.
-- Leonora Carrington -
The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes.
-- Lloyd Alexander -
I didn't see it as someone who worked as hard as I did. But now that Saint Laurent is part of history, it makes me a part of history, so, yes, finally it's not such a bad thing to have been a muse.
-- Loulou de la Falaise -
Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat.
-- Lucille Kallen -
Change shakes us up, and we can thank our Muse for it... we are driven by change to create, to excel, and to become better humans, perhaps even more sensitive humans!
-- Max Elliott Slade -
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 -
So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain.
-- Michael Drayton -
It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks
-- Miriam -
Everybody knows that I don't have a muse. I'm not interested in that.
-- Miuccia Prada -
When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.
-- Ovid -
Yes. I guess it's the foolish romantic in me, but you see, I don’t think that sex is my Muse.
-- Peter Murphy -
There is no wide road which leads to the Muses.
-- Propertius -
The muse doesn't come without being called.
-- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky -
What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.
-- Ray Bradbury -
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 -
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 -
Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
-- Robert Fitzgerald -
Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings.
-- Robert Genn -
Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
-- Robert Genn -
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
-- Sappho -
To me the Muses truly gave / An envied and a happy lot: / E'en when I lie within the grave, / I cannot, shall not, be forgot.
-- Sappho -
The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.
-- Stephen King -
The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.
-- Stephen Nachmanovitch -
I am tired of loving a foreign muse.
-- Stephen Vincent Benet -
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 -
Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
-- Susan Sontag -
The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.
-- Terry Brooks -
Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a mood so raffish that there are those who claim to have seen her with her slip showing.
-- Thornton Willis -
There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
-- Walter Benjamin -
Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.
-- William S. Burroughs -
It's not like that when you're a songwriter - songwriters aren't like pulp writers or journalists, even. You just follow the muse. It's called muse-ic. Whenever the muse decides to bestow her inspiration on the songwriter, then the song is born.
-- Cass McCombs -
A muse is something that serves a poet well early in his or her career. In later years one writers out of one's own driven inspiration. One learns to find inspiration rather than waiting for it to come for a visit. I can find inspiration almost anywhere.
-- Clarence Major -
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 Moral?oglu -
Who loves not music and the heavenly muse, That man God hates.
-- John Dowland -
I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.
-- Lou Doillon -
The artist who chooses the difficult muse; or only has a difficult muse; should not be surprised with the results.
-- Oliver $ -
I do have a muse. I am not sure how to describe her. She can be very elusive. She was born in England but has Mediterranean ancestry.
-- Quentin S. Crisp -
I'm really lucky because my mom is a good beauty muse.
-- Elizabeth Jagger -
[My muse] she's impatient with me, because I don't do what I should do: sit down and write.
-- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
