Muse Quotes - page 7

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)
....But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay, Invention, Nature's child, fled step-dame Study's blows, And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way. Thus great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: "Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart and write."
Philip Sidney
Disaster is my muse.
Art Spiegelman
Awake, Ausonian Muse, and sing the vineyard song!
Hilaire Belloc
I have a lot of doubts about following my muse when my muse leads me down some weird path. Again, like quilts. But I also know that if I do something just because I know people will approve of that, that's not really going to help me as an artist.
Nina Paley
For his chaste Muse employ'd her heaven-taught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire, Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot.
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
I do not want to be anyone's muse.
Scarlett Johansson
For pointed satire I would Buckhurst choose, The best good man with the worst-natured muse.
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
The professional will not tolerate disorder... He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not soil her gown.
Steven Pressfield
Is happiness real? Or am I so jaded I can't see or feel - like a man been tainted. Numbed by the effect - aware of the muse Too in touch with myself - I light the fuse.
Paul Weller (singer)
Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like. (Dick Cavett)
I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.
Ray Bradbury
Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as they write, they begin to wake up to a larger connection. After a while, people tend to find that there is some muse that they are connecting to.
Julia Cameron
I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me.
Tom Robbins
My muse is male, has the silvery complexion of the moon, and never speaks to me directly.
Diane Ackerman
I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are dire.
Eric Clapton
Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christianity leads poetry to the truth. Like it, the modern muse will see things in a higher and broader light. It will realize that everything in creation is not humanly beautiful, that the ugly exists beside the beautiful, the unshapely beside the graceful, the grotesque on the reverse of the sublime, evil with good, darkness with light.
Victor Hugo
Come then, expressive silence, muse His praise.
James Thomson (poet)
Enough, my muse, thy wearied wing no more Must to the seat of Jove triumphant soar. Chilled by my nation's cold neglect, thy fires Glow bold no more, and all thy rage expires.
Luís de Camões
The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase. (Horace)
The Muse gave the Greeks their native character, and allowed them to speak in noble tones, they who desired nothing but praise.
Horace
No, trust the Muse: she opes the good man's grave, And lifts him to the gods.
John Conington
Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.
Homer
Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways of contending, the wanderer, harried for years on end.
Homer