Dues Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Kit Williams

Nemesis is one of God's handmaids.

— William Rounseville Alger

Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.

— Alexander Pope

She abounds with lucious faults.

— Quintilian

She has the majesty of hurricanes and explosions.

— Lauren DeStefano

Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed.

— Thomas Huxley

But the muse won’t always cooperate and she will never be coerced. Sometimes she’d rather take a nap or see a mid-afternoon movie.

— Anonymous

Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where the love…

— James Russell Lowell

And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed like a…

— Leonard Cohen

Woo the muse of the odd.

— Lafcadio Hearn

Ann's got to take her nerve by the horns.

— Virginia Wade