Poetry Quote by Homer

Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.

— Anonymous

“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

“Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways of contending, the wanderer, harried for years…

— Homer

Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.

— Nikki Giovanni

“Poet has no power over the muse, It's the muse who powers the poet. Best of poetry is an act of selfless care, As…

— Abhijit Naskar

“She began to whisper something in my ear. It’s the strangest thing about poetry—you can tell it’s poetry, even if you don’t speak the…

— Neil Gaiman

To me the Muses truly gave / An envied and a happy lot: / E'en when I lie within the grave, / I cannot,…

— Sappho

“And even though I’m a writer, and I pen my words in black and white on flat sheets of paper stapled together hastily at…

— Jessica Yeh

“To become the love of a poet is to become both a muse and an immortal all at the same time.”

— Jennifer Megan Varnadore

“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

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.

— Lascelles Abercrombie

Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed…

— John Drinkwater