Changed Quote by Dante Alighieri

If we are transparent, with nothing to hide, the gap between language and being disappears. Then the Muse can speak.

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that - like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn't be held…

— James Taylor

In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself.

— Katie Roiphe

What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the…

— Margaret Fuller

“For those who do not write and who never have been stirred by the creative urge, talk of muses seems a figure of speech,…

— Dan Simmons

music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them.

— Irene Nemirovsky

The muse appears at the point in my writing when I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything cracks open,…

— Amy Tan

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

— Michel Leiris

Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings.

— Robert Genn

Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god…

— Eliza Farnham

“To honour its first creation, no sound was permitted within the home of Muse for a full year, no sound save that of its…

— Cameron Rogers

The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites.

— Robert Graves