Muse Quotes · Page 10

My muse is an ungrateful harlot who’s abandoned me to actually come up with my own plots.

— Richelle Mead

It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear…

— William Butler Yeats

I want the power that comes from expressing myself creatively and putting something back into the world. Being someone's muse would be…

— Ari Graynor

Let passion be your muse. Let her guide and teach you to trust your instincts.

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

Cicala to cicala is dear, and ant to ant, and hawks to hawks, but to me the muse and song.

— Theocritus

“On Lou: She has a childlike purity and integrity of character and at the same time, a quite unchildlike, almost unfeminine, direction…

— Alois Biedermann

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

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I don't really like the world 'muse.'

— Craig McDean

If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the…

— Kerry Greenwood

Models are supposed to be a muse to you. Why is a muse always the same body type, the same look? It's…

— Coco Rocha

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

“You can lead and motivate people without a certificate or title, what you need to do is to tell people a compelling…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely…

— Plato

Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons.

— Wes Nisker

One of the things that helps me tell a story through music is to create a character. I have to have a…

— Madonna Ciccone

The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I…

— Taylor Swift

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

— David Mutti Clark

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

— Kanye West

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

— Anthony Trollope

“Laughing in my ear is a muse amused by how I paint her whims on paper with silly words.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

She [me muse] feels most at home in autumn, nonetheless, she is glad of the other seasons and loves them all. Without…

— Quentin S. Crisp

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

“As you entered the room stirring air with suppleness of walk, waking up the stillness with jingles of cymbals, making curtains dance…

— Suman Pokhrel

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