Muse Quotes · Page 10

“She is a poem. She is an old one, a new one, one waiting to be written. She is.”

— N'Zuri Za Austin

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

My muse is very often, in my mind, a nagger. She nags me.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.

— Ovid

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

— Barbara Tuchman

I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are dire.

— Eric Clapton

I was the muse of Tom Ford and Gucci for years, but that was a long time ago.

— Carine Roitfeld

First coffee, then a bowel movement. Then the Muse joins me.

— Gore Vidal

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

— Frank Norris

Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African…

— Cassandra Wilson

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

Writers feel that they can't afford to wait. They must do it now, and they are so clever, and there is so…

— Robert Dessaix

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

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

— Anais Nin

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

— Jonathan Swift

“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

Most bands have a sound that they're already identified with, so for the producer it becomes a process of helping them find…

— Jerry Harrison

When The Daily Muse initially wanted to launch a job board, our first ideas were insanely (and needlessly) complex. We wanted to…

— Kathryn Minshew

“You resting your head tenderly on my shoulders while we sit below the old Oak tree. And we smile at each other…

— Avijeet Das

“In Schubert, for instance, say, in Wiegenleid D867 or Der Wanderer and den Mond D870 one finds perhaps the ultimate listening experience,…

— Andrew Ashdown

New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse, and I can only dream that one day she will recapture her glory.…

— Harry Connick, Jr

It's not like that when you're a songwriter - songwriters aren't like pulp writers or journalists, even. You just follow the muse.…

— Cass McCombs

This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our…

— Steven Pressfield

I truly believe that a beautiful woman is a beautiful woman, but a beautiful woman with a brain is an absolutely lethal…

— Prabal Gurung

Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Hi, I am Matt Bellamy and I am in a band called Muse and we play Music”

— Matt Bellamy

“She loved me deeply, madly and passionately. She knew no other way!”

— Avijeet Das

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

— Stephen King

One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.

— Piers Anthony

Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Inspiration is that little spark that comes at night to set our souls ablaze.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Once you start being a muse, you cannot stop being a muse.

— Carine Roitfeld

Every day I'm worried about you...but my love for you will forever be a muse

— Natalya Johnson

I'm not sure why my muse is female, except when I am deliberately playing against that figure.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Yes. I guess it's the foolish romantic in me, but you see, I don’t think that sex is my Muse.

— Peter Murphy

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

You're best when you're not in charge. The ego locks the muse.

— Robin Williams

When I write, I put aside the heterosexual world to admit a muse that is a woman-loving-woman female.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

— William Shakespeare

“Poet has no power over the muse, it's the muse who powers the poet.”

— Abhijit Naskar