Dies Quote by Horace

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

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

Today she is the lady of death, which I believe is the best muse to have.

— Kit Williams

Let my muse Fail of thy former helps, and only use Her inadulterate strength. What's done by me Hereafter shall smell of the lamp,…

— Robert Herrick

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

— Sappho

“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

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

Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By…

— Aeschylus

The muse, the beloved, and duende are three ways of thinking of what is the source of poetry, and all three seem to me…

— Edward Hirsch

“Rage. Sing, O Muse, of the rage of Achilles, of Peleus’ son, murderous, man-killer, fated to die, sing of the rage that cost the…

— Dan Simmons

“He who approaches the temple of the Muses without inspiration, in the belief that craftsmanship alone suffices, will remain a bungler and his presumptuous…

— Plato

The blessing of heaven will not accompany the preaching that is done in a worldly manner.

— Steven J. Law