Muse Quotes · Page 8

The power of our Muse lies in her meaninglessness. Even the style can turn one into a slave if one does not…

— Gueorgui Pinkhassov

I've always worked on all different types of music, some with specific project goals and deadlines and some not. Sometimes I would…

— Serj Tankian

What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that,…

— Maya Angelou

How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor Falstaff, although…

— John Keats

Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by…

— Nick Cave

It's something I worry about when I'm working out. I don't want to get too fit. Because I don't want the new…

— Jimmy Fallon

Everyone has left me except my muse, that good nurse. She stays in my hand, a mild white mouse.

— Anne Sexton

[The Muse of our Fiction of the future] will lead you - if you are humble and honest with her - straight…

— Frank Norris

I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You hear a lot from other musicians that the muse can leave forever.

— Alana Haim

I believe in previous lives and the Muse—and that books and music exist before they are written and that they are propelled…

— Steven Pressfield

Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages. Let not what should be…

— Cotton Mather

“Words are beads on the strings of sentences. So make a beautiful necklace!”

— Aneta Cruz

But Fear and the Muse in turn guard the place Where the banished poet has gone And the night that comes with…

— Anna Akhmatova

Discipline is what makes a writer. If writing was like lifting weights, then I'd look like Mr. Universe. Write every day. Give…

— Tony D'Souza

I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.

— Lou Doillon

I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.

— Leonora Carrington

All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson…

— Allan Bloom

Every so often every artist feels, 'I'll never paint again. The muse has gone out the window.' In 1985, I hardly painted…

— Helen Frankenthaler

“I should’ve probably warned you: once you end a relationship with an artist, you are perpetually reminded of them. They have now…

— Kamand Kojouri

New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse...

— Harry Connick, Jr

[My muse] feels nostalgic for Japan, and, perhaps strangely, for the pioneer days of America.

— Quentin S. Crisp

Muse is a tyrant. It gets you out of bed in the twilight of the morning and forces you to create something!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Unless you can muse in a crowd all day On the absent face that fixed you; Unless you can love, as the…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning