Muse Quotes · Page 6

“Lately the muse has been treating me like Ike treated Tina.”

— Quentin R. Bufogle

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

— Ralph Lauren

There are a couple of poems I've written with masculine muses, very often the muse to me is a female.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways, who was driven far journeys”

— Homer

“Your muse ain't singin' on your MTV? Can't even see him on your HD TV?”

— David Mutti Clark

Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.

— Stevie Smith

“Though it’s reasons to burn may vary... you are always the fuel of my fire.”

— Ranata Suzuki

“The Muse visits during the act of creation, not before. Don't wait for her. Start alone.”

— Roger Ebert

It's called 'The 10th Muse.' I'm the 10th daughter of Zeus - the forgotten Muse. By day, I'm a district attorney; by…

— Sable

Then, rising with Aurora's light, The Muse invoked, sit down to write; Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline.

— Jonathan Swift

For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the…

— Anais Nin

Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work…

— Henry David Thoreau

“I want you, English. I think about you all the time—no—scratch that. I obsess over you all the time. You’re my muse.…

— Tarryn Fisher

When a painting problem crops up, don't rush to fix it. You probably already know one way to fix it, but wait…

— Carole Katchen

“...you want things to remain the same, which they never can, and so you’re wounded by your own feelings & resentful others…

— John Geddes

Sometimes I just don't have time to wait for the muse to come, so I've developed things to force the muse to…

— Dan Mangan

I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received,…

— William Safire

“no verse, no diction resurrected, shaped unless the thought of you dictates this ink, your slave as the poems flow through from…

— Nejoud Al-Yagout

Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or…

— Martin Amis

“If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject…

— Plato

But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay; Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's blows; And others' feet still seemed but strangers…

— Philip Sidney

I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no…

— Isabel Allende

I am imbued with the notion that a Muse is necessarily a dead woman, inaccessible or absent; that a poetic structure -…

— Michel Leiris

From the world of the muse and writing, there will come, hopefully, the book. You're right, for me, that the muse is…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“Some eyes are as deep as the sea! And you only feel like drowning in them.”

— Avijeet Das

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

— William Shakespeare

“Fighting demons is what I do; real, and those in my head.”

— Pippa DaCosta

I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

— Ray Bradbury

Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

— Homer

The Muses inspire art and pretend not to notice when Mammon buys it.

— Mason Cooley

I know I might sound a little bit picky, but someone like a muse who can inspire me is my ideal type.

— Ji Chang-wook

“When demons call you the Mother of Destruction, sh*t gets real." Muse.”

— Pippa DaCosta

“How…will I ever truly depict you? You’re perfect, my writing isn’t.”

— Sanober Khan

She [Kim Kardashian] was always my muse, now she's become other designers' muses.

— Kanye West

“The reader's feedback is the muse for great written works of art.”

— Sarah Scott

A lot of the time you just have to follow your creative muse and do what you think is best for the…

— Rick Remender

Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

My mom was my muse - she would buy me Italian 'Vogue.' I was this little fashion boy.

— Nicola Formichetti

The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.

— Alexander Pope

If a muse knocked at our studio door tomorrow, how many of us would even notice?

— Carole Katchen