Muses Quotes

54 quotes by 53 authors

Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or something like that...Swing… — Martin Amis
Muses had a way of killing those whom they inspired. — Katherine Neville
January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well… — Isabel Allende
O you, who in some pretty boat, Eager to listen, have been following Behind my ship, that singing sails along Turn back to look again… — Dante Alighieri
The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited. — Stephen King
(...) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and… — James Joyce
For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the… — Anais Nin
Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. All that remains of my mother is what I remember and what I… — Marge Piercy
I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous. — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop. — Benjamin Franklin
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 have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment. — Karl Lagerfeld
Who knows but this hill may one day be a Helvellyn, or even a Parnassus, and the Muses haunt here, and other Homers frequent the… — Henry David Thoreau (1817_1862) US Philosopher
The disquieting muses again: what are leftovers? — John Ashbery

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