Foolish man Quote by Nick Bantock

“Get up to turn your chair away from her a few degrees. And look at me. I may be someone else's longed-for phantom. Pour…

— Elizabeth Hadaway

“We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying what we think, then how little we are…

— Virginia Woolf

“Phantom Your heart must be a ghost. I can feel it mounting; a dark wave - upon the night of my soul”

— Segovia Amil

“To love those who despise us, and to give one's hand to the phantom who tries to frighten us?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“You realize, you have to give in to the muse from afar. You have to heed the inner voice that has come calling. (Across…

— Mala Naidoo

“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

“you dear, sweet, tantalizing phantom--hardly flesh at all; so that when I put my arms round you I almost expect them to pass through…

— Thomas Hardy

“But the fact is, she [the muse] won't be summoned. She alights when it damn well pleases her. She falls in love with one…

— Erica Jong

“You realize you must give in to the muse from afar. You have to heed the inner voice that has come calling.”

— Mala Naidoo

“The Muse visits during the act of creation, not before. Don't wait for her. Start alone.”

— Roger Ebert

“I was following a phantom in my mind, whose shadowy form had taken shape at last. Her features were blurred, her coloring indistinct, the…

— Daphne du Maurier

“If you want someone to tell you what to think," the phantom answered briskly, without looking up, "you will never be short of people…

— Frances Hardinge