Muse Quotes

Bugs Bunny is my muse.

— Billy Collins

The sky is love's muse.

— Walter Mercado

“Hail, Muse! et cetera.”

— George Gordon Byron

“I am a Muse.”

— Susie M. Hanley

“Don't wait for the muse.”

— Stephen King

“Disaster is my muse.”

— Art Spiegelman

Woo the muse of the odd.

— Lafcadio Hearn

“I loss Muse!”

— Buffy Andrews

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

— Harry Connick, Jr

Oakland has always been my muse.

— Too Short

“Wherever I may be your thoughts will be with me.”

— Avijeet Das

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

— Jane Birkin

I honor health as the first Muse.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Tell me, O Muse, of the man of many devices”

— Homer

I guess my husband is a muse as well.

— Tori Amos

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

— Dick Schaap

My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever…

— Stevie Smith

Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse.

— Mickey Hart

Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance.

— Edgar Degas

Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.

— Horace

Rhyme and meter force gaps in meaning so the muse can enter.

— Mason Cooley

I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling.

— K. D. Lang

“Nurture your mind, body and spirit. Grow your Muse and you will lead a fulfilled life.”

— Gail McMeekin

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

— John Dowland

You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

— Nick Cave

It's something I worry about when I'm working out. I don't want to get too fit. Because I don't want the new…

— Jimmy Fallon

My muses were all the incredible, iconic women of glamour in Hollywood that I have worked with over 15 years. Anjelica Huston,…

— Zac Posen

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…

— Erdem Moral?oglu

“Now, what should we call ourselves?" "Well, in the old language, mousa means a source of inspiration," Clio said. "Why don't we…

— Farrah Rochon

A sacrifice is not about expecting God to break the bond you have with another person. You make the sacrifice on your…

— Anonymous

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“Let the old Muse loosen her stays Or give me a new Muse with stockings and suspenders And a smile like a…

— Louis MacNeice

I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join…

— Tom Robbins

But there are spirits of a yet more liberal culture, to whom no simplicity is barren. There are not only stately pines,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition…

— Margaret Fuller

The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most annoying whine.…

— Harlan Coben

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I…

— Alice Walker

The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse…

— Jorge Luis Borges