“Throughout her life, she behaved as if she had never heard anyone suggest that a woman couldn't do entirely as she pleased.” — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
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… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
I have a vast 'bone pile' of stillborn or abandoned poems along with jottings and wisps from the great beyond that I… — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
“You can only use someone for so long before you dry them out. How long does a muse last? When do you… — Coco J. Ginger Copy Share Image
You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I am mistaken if a single epigram included fails to preserve at least some faint thrill of the emotion through which it… — Arthur Quiller-Couch Copy Share Image
Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull into a cup for others to drink wine from. In this town somewhere there sits… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She is a compassionate Amazon forming a muse from misery, full of graphic words, she doesn't hide, she speaks, she writes, she… — Laura Gentile Copy Share Image
“A Letter from a Muse to Her Poet: Dear sir, I was called away and couldn’t bring you, but now I feel… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
It's super-essential. Even though I don't have a very big team, for me, the word muse may be démodé or not. I… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman:… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
As we've grown 'The Daily Muse' and met contacts who want to collaborate with us, knowing who does what has helped us… — Kathryn Minshew Copy Share Image
I could not but smile to think in what out-of-the-way corners genius produces her bantlings! And the Muses, those capricious dames, who,… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“The ancient Greeks worshipped the human capacity for insight. Scott Berkun, in examining the topic of innovation, pointed out that the Greek… — Gary Klein Copy Share Image
My muse changes all the time because I think every designer is a bit of a muse for themselves in a way… — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely… — Plato Copy Share Image
“What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture,… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
What happens when a female writer invokes a female muse? Does something else happen? With Sappho's figures of desire, we have a… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
We stalk the truth as poets, sensualists, a duality, limited insanity. We labor in our muse, carving alphabets of experience into our… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
“I am your own way of looking at things," she said. "When you allow me to live with you, every glance at… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse,… — Eliza Farnham Copy Share Image
Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“When the door to my writing chamber gasps shut and the almost imperceptible sigh of a rose petal falls on my desk,… — Brandi Bates Copy Share Image
For poetry, he's past his prime, He takes an hour to find a rhyme; His fire is out, his wit decayed, His… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art,… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
Yet the companions of the Muses will keep their collective nose in my books And weary with historical data, they will turn… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I don't need a Hollywood girl. They're crazy. If you're with an actress, you don't know who you're going to come home… — JC Chasez Copy Share Image
The power of our Muse lies in her meaninglessness. Even the style can turn one into a slave if one does not… — Gueorgui Pinkhassov Copy Share Image
Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Deep in the secret chambers of my heart I muse my life-long hate, and without flinch I bear it nobly as I… — Claude McKay Copy Share Image
The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“When there is fear,he will have his pen clasp it high,whence for him,the wonders of night give light,where he lies behind his… — Nithin Purple Copy Share Image
Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I don't understand people who get up at 9 o'clock in… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
One of the things that helps me tell a story through music is to create a character. I have to have a… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Change shakes us up, and we can thank our Muse for it... we are driven by change to create, to excel, and… — Max Elliott Slade Copy Share Image
You're going to be unemployed if you really think you just have to sit around and wait for the muse to land… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
