The Muse Quotes

The Muse Quote of the day

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.

I say, dress to please yourself. Listen to your inner muse and take a chance. Wear something that says 'Here I am!' today.

Don't be different just for different's sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.

Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather of mind got clarity new-found; now free, I once more weave together emotion, thought, and magic sound.

Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.

Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse?a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.

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

The muse doesn't come without being called.

The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.

I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.

My wife Ricky is my muse. Her personal style and natural beauty have always been my inspiration.

Perversity is the muse of modern literature.

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!

A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.

I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.

Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.

Once you start being a muse, you cannot stop being a muse.

There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.

New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse...

Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.

I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a muse, but then I weren't much of a poet

Deep in the secret chambers of my heart I muse my life-long hate, and without flinch I bear it nobly as I live my part.

I didn't really think of myself as being a muse.

Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.

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

Fashion is a MUSE, you must seduce her.

Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now.

The ancient Greek "oral poets" all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the muse to help them remember.

First coffee, then a bowel movement. Then the Muse joins me.

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.

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

All of us need to be in touch with a mysterious, tantalizing source of inspiration that teases our sense of wonder and goads us on to life’s next adventure.

Express your creativity. Delight in the mystery of your inner muse.

When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go... The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back!

I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.

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

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.

Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony.

Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.

Who loves not music and the heavenly muse, That man God hates.

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

Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.

Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.

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.

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!

Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.

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.

I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.

The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask.

When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them in their graves. Here are no lying nor vain epitaphs.