Able Quote by May Sarton

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and…

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of…

— Anais Nin

I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

There are a couple of poems I've written with masculine muses, very often the muse to me is a female.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry.

— Anthony Mackie

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't…

— Aleksandar Hemon

I'm an actress, primarily. I love to write poetry. I've been writing poetry since I was 12 years old.

— Masiela Lusha

My muse can take the form of a landscape, an era, a style of writing, a piece of music, and, perhaps that which I…

— Quentin S. Crisp

I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are dire.

— Eric Clapton

Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.

— Alice Notley

I think I look for a muse in women. Someone I can just picture in my mind. Someone who respects herself and others. It…

— JC Chasez

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

— Misha Collins