Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse. — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
“She is a poem. She is an old one, a new one, one waiting to be written. She is.” — N'Zuri Za Austin Copy Share Image
It's why muse is so impatient with me. I don't ever go to her until after the teaching or whatever is over. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now. — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Pity! Religion has so seldom found A skilful guide into poetic ground! The flowers would spring where'er she deign'd to stray And… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I've found that depending on the amount of the check, disciplined inspiration can be called upon willingly. I think the name of… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
Lots of you know me as a lone, hard-bitten columnist, prone to lurking on deserted rocky promontories while searching for my muse. — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
“I’m just a wretched half-blood girl caught in a storm.” Akil tasted his wine and smiled. “Muse, you are the storm.” — Pippa DaCosta Copy Share Image
Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“I can assure you, as anyone who has ever met a muse knows, the best way to get a muse to hang… — Z.A. Maxfield Copy Share Image
“A writer should remember that about his muse there is a great deal of the Siren. He should view his mental offspring… — F.L. Lucas Copy Share Image
Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“I see it, Jack. Your muse is back. The thing that gave you passion, tormented you, and haunted you is back. You're… — H.M. Ward Copy Share Image
“Once or twice, at night, he planted himself in front of the type-writer, trying to get back to the book he'd come… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“So why was the goddess of Memory linked with artistic creation,you may well ask" "Because for the Greeks creativity wasn't associated with… — Jeffrey Moore Copy Share Image
I used to think that most published writers, the ones I admired, had a muse, or a special connection to the universe,… — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share Image
I think 'G.I. Joe' is a perfect example of how I'm the world's worst businessman. If I were smart, I'd be writing… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages. Let not what should be… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
For a lot of us, awareness is merely realizing the extent to which we've been lied to all our lives. You start… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons. — Wes Nisker Copy Share Image
“...I worship at the temple of your body and without you, I'd have no art...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music. — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Express your creativity. Delight in the mystery of your inner muse. — Cheryl Richardson Copy Share Image
“I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.” — Oroma Elewa Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing worse than being violently jerked away from creativity.” — Aaron B. Powell Copy Share Image
“You are my Muse..." ~I Belong to You (Mon Coeur S'Ouvre A Ta Voix)” — Matthew Bellamy Copy Share Image
The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
“Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll.” — Helen Hanson Copy Share Image
We've always found a muse for a record - something that's a unifying inspiration for the four of us. — Tony Kanal Copy Share Image
