“To judge by the many crossings-out and the scribbles that adorned the discarded sheets, several of which had been screwed into balls… — Elizabeth Bailey Copy Share Image
The concept of muse is alien to me. To speak of a muse implies there is a couple in which one person… — Luca Guadagnino Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“In Schubert, for instance, say, in Wiegenleid D867 or Der Wanderer and den Mond D870 one finds perhaps the ultimate listening experience,… — Andrew Ashdown Copy Share Image
“You resting your head tenderly on my shoulders while we sit below the old Oak tree. And we smile at each other… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
When The Daily Muse initially wanted to launch a job board, our first ideas were insanely (and needlessly) complex. We wanted to… — Kathryn Minshew Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I believe it's impossible to write good poetry without reading. Reading poetry goes straight to my psyche and makes me want to… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
I am super passionate about my new business because it has the potential to disrupt the fashion industry in a positive way.… — Amber Valletta Copy Share Image
So, in addition to being a full-time father of two and everything else in life, it isn't so much that I'm sitting… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make… — Plato Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I truly believe that a beautiful woman is a beautiful woman, but a beautiful woman with a brain is an absolutely lethal… — Prabal Gurung Copy Share Image
From the world of the muse and writing, there will come, hopefully, the book. You're right, for me, that the muse is… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I am imbued with the notion that a Muse is necessarily a dead woman, inaccessible or absent; that a poetic structure -… — Michel Leiris Copy Share Image
I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay; Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's blows; And others' feet still seemed but strangers… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject… — Plato Copy Share Image
Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“no verse, no diction resurrected, shaped unless the thought of you dictates this ink, your slave as the poems flow through from… — Nejoud Al-Yagout Copy Share Image
By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms,… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received,… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Like a sea-beast fished up from the depths, or a diver too suddenly hoisted, my veins threatened to burst from the fall… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beaten track-fostered my career. I… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
The funny thing, I guess, is that my husband ended up being the muse of a book about the worst marriage in… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
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