Muse Quotes · Page 9

I'm always resisting [my muse]. I'm resisting her power.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

The Muse is mute when public men Applaud a modern throne.

— William Butler Yeats

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

— Anthony Trollope

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

— Anne Sexton

Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.

— William S. Burroughs

Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

“Great ideas emerges from useless fragments of thoughts.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“You are my fantasy on a cold dark night, my muse during the light of day and the one wish my soul…

— Grace Willows

Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount…

— Thornton Willis

I'm never gonna step away from stand-up. I can't. That's what got me where I am, and that's also my muse. That's…

— Kevin Hart

Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn’t show up invited, eventually…

— Isabel Allende

As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan…

— Edward Thomson

So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain.

— Michael Drayton

I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts.

— Franco Zeffirelli

The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it…

— William Faulkner

“Art supersedes knowledge written in books. Art is the muse. Art is magic settling upon your he[art] like dust.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

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

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

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

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

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

I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no…

— Isabel Allende

I am imbued with the notion that a Muse is necessarily a dead woman, inaccessible or absent; that a poetic structure -…

— Michel Leiris

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

“Maybe she was a little dark but she sort of sparkled with it. Jacob about Muse”

— Z.A. Maxfield

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

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“A smile, like the poet's muse, Inspires passion in the lover's heart”

— Alex Z. Moores

What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.

— Ray Bradbury

“She had found more than peace of mind. She had discovered the state of her soul set down in ink.”

— Nancy Horan

“Your gracefulness and feminine charms always so tender, you make my heart smile and wonder!”

— Avijeet Das

Wrestling gave me something outside science, which was my muse before this.

— Velveteen Dream

“Stop waiting for creative inspiration. Start creating and inspire yourself along the way.”

— Ryan Lilly

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

“Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“Forcing the muse to let thoughts flow; equals to pushing a child, into labor.”

— Aniruddha Sastikar

The Muse visits during the process of creation, not before.

— Roger Ebert

There is no architect Can build as the Muse can; She is skilful to select Materials for her plan.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Theocritus

“Muse usually gestured like an amphetamine-fueled Sicilian who's nearly gotten clipped by a speeding car.”

— Harlan Coben

Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.

— Edmund Waller