Greece was a muse. It inspired creativity in magical ways that I can't even begin to understand or explain. — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
A lot of my songs are inspired by a muse of some sort, whether she's real or not. — Borns Copy Share Image
I go forth to seek To seek and claim the lovely magic garden Where grasses softly sigh and Muses speak. — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
There are a couple of poems I've written with masculine muses, very often the muse to me is a female. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“Your muse ain't singin' on your MTV? Can't even see him on your HD TV?” — David Mutti Clark Copy Share Image
Lots of you know me as a lone, hard-bitten columnist, prone to lurking on deserted rocky promontories while searching for my muse. — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“I’m just a wretched half-blood girl caught in a storm.” Akil tasted his wine and smiled. “Muse, you are the storm.” — Pippa DaCosta Copy Share Image
“A writer should remember that about his muse there is a great deal of the Siren. He should view his mental offspring… — F.L. Lucas Copy Share Image
“I can assure you, as anyone who has ever met a muse knows, the best way to get a muse to hang… — Z.A. Maxfield Copy Share Image
“I'm not a concept. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to 'make them alive'…but… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
With no companion but the constant Muse, Who sought me when I needed her ah, when Did I not need her, solitary… — Richard Henry Stoddard Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the writing flows, sometimes it's like wading through concrete. But I keep showing up each day, whether the Muse joins me… — Bruce Hale Copy Share Image
I sing to my wife; it helps me. She was my muse. I've written so many songs about her, to her, with… — Ian McLagan Copy Share Image
I think my muse is all around me...at least the opportunities for creation are all around. I especially enjoy being in my… — Jerdine Nolen Copy Share Image
A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I struggle with enormous discrepancies: between the reality of motherhood and the image of it, between my love for my home and… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My wife Ricky is my muse. Her personal style and natural beauty have always been my inspiration. — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
“Some eyes are as deep as the sea! And you only feel like drowning in them.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. — Homer Copy Share Image
Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy. — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
“Though it’s reasons to burn may vary... you are always the fuel of my fire.” — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“The Muse visits during the act of creation, not before. Don't wait for her. Start alone.” — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It sounds insane, I know, but I think that - I'm so lucky because I basically am my own muse. — Rumi Neely Copy Share Image
