...by and by a change came: I started to muse about the shape of my nose. I put my trivial surroundings aside… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Writing is incredibly hard. But I want to do it. That said, I make it the top priority in every day, which… — Lucy Jane Bledsoe Copy Share Image
The delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted. Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I do not write about love as if I have invented it. I write about love because thoughts of you inspire self-forgetfulness.… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“In Poems of Love and Light: The Light of The Sun…Our Breath as One, the tenor seems to have changed slightly, as… — Frank L. DeSilva Copy Share Image
I like the concept of an anti-muse, though I'm not quite sure what that is. If there is such a thing in… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
So Nemerov showed us this picture, which is of Apollo flaying Marcius. You don't think of Apollo as being the sort of… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
“The Price of a Muse I write for resurrection to see bodies reassemble and rise I've tried to write my dog off… — Nancy Boutilier Copy Share Image
If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly… You are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“She was remembering His gaze, those deep pools of blue, crystalline in nature, peering deep into her soul. She remembered the first… — Frank L. DeSilva Copy Share Image
remember a feeling of excitement, of sudden inspiration, when I was visiting Giovanni Boccaccio's home in the walled village of Certaldo, outside… — Mary Pope Osborne 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
“I studied law at Columbia, but I was more interested in why people committed crimes than I was in defending them. I… — Sarah Morgan Copy Share Image
She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Sappho is a great poet because she is a lesbian, which gives her erotic access to the Muse. Sappho and the homosexual-tending… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Job seekers light up when they find The Muse - we're a breath of fresh air in a stale, musty world. Our… — Kathryn Minshew Copy Share Image
Some Asian American male scholars have claimed this muse to be Guong Goong, God of Literature, and, simultaneously, although not coincidentally or… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The other me, who did not mean to drown herself, went under the sea and remained there for a long time. Eventually… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“And even though I’m a writer, and I pen my words in black and white on flat sheets of paper stapled together… — Jessica Yeh Copy Share Image
When I was writing songs or performing or producing or dabbling in movies or even putting my career on hold to go… — Jackie DeShannon Copy Share Image
A lot of times, I was about to get a role, but then somebody called. The father or mother would call and… — Sameera Reddy Copy Share Image
“Tell me about a complicated man. Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost when he had wrecked the holy town… — Emily Wilson Copy Share Image
“Then I knew: this wasn’t just a passion I felt for my model. My feelings about him had nothing to do with… — Sharon Biggs Waller Copy Share Image
“Richard P Feynman was fascinated by the Moon; he tried in earnest to see the Moon. But science could only see the… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
The muse on my shoulder is very sensitive and does not abide claptrap of any kind... Only when I am totally immersed...… — Catherine Stock Copy Share Image
“Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in… — John Keats Copy Share Image
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. Think of it as… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I could not have written a novel if I hadn't been a journalist first, because it taught me that there's no muse… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
The artist-muse relationship is romantic and passionate, and complex, and I would imagine that would be a hard relationship to have if… — Kate Bosworth Copy Share Image
Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the a.non.y.muse roller that passed upon my… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as they write, they begin… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“Memory is the mother of the muses, prototype Artist. As a rule picks and highlights what is important, omitting what is accidental… — Frank Harris Copy Share Image
I am indebted to anyone who has ever written anything. I am indebted to the unknown carver of pictograms on a gallery… — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
Muse of poetry, come to his aid, I thought. Could the man produce one more metaphor of husbandry? He seemed to be… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
“I'm not a big fan of inspiration. I'm too old to sit and wait for the muse to give me a little… — Ron Koertge Copy Share Image
Most people assume that a muse is a creature of perfect beauty, poise and grace. Like the creatures from Greek mythology. They're… — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
