I'm always resisting [my muse]. I'm resisting her power.

I'm truly, 100% guided by the characters and my Muse. If one of the characters suddenly decided to do something very different, I'd just…

— Lori Foster

You can wait forever for the muse to sit on your shoulder, but most of the time you know what has to be done…

— Nick Hornby

“Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways of contending, the wanderer, harried for years…

— Homer

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue…

— Alexander Pope

Muses had a way of killing those whom they inspired.

— Katherine Neville

I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon…

— Ray Bradbury

Wrestling gave me something outside science, which was my muse before this.

— Velveteen Dream

“A Letter from a Muse to Her Poet: Dear sir, I was called away and couldn’t bring you, but now I feel haunted. I…

— Laura Whitcomb

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs…

— William Shakespeare

“I get the niggling feeling in my belly that says it's time for a new song. It hits at the most random, inopportune times.…

— C.M. Stunich

Loss as muse. Loss as character. Loss as life.

— Anna Quindlen

Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem…

— Joseph Campbell

Art is the extended arm of your imagination, The feast of inspiration for your muse. Art isn't just creativity, its a way of life.

— Sarah Curran

Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god…

— Eliza Farnham