Desire Quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I'm not sure why my muse is female, except when I am deliberately playing against that figure.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“Sensuality is beautiful, and dominance and submission in the right context is a passionate art. A muse which ignites the flame of femininity, which…

— Sai Marie Johnson

Sappho is a great poet because she is a lesbian, which gives her erotic access to the Muse. Sappho and the homosexual-tending Emily Dickinson…

— Camille Paglia

The notion of having your muse was not something that was built for women originally. That's not to say women don't have muses. I…

— Abi Morgan

When I write, I put aside the heterosexual world to admit a muse that is a woman-loving-woman female.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

From the world of the muse and writing, there will come, hopefully, the book. You're right, for me, that the muse is always female,…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

When you're a female poet, would you, therefore, invoke a male muse? When nuns get consecrated into their vocations, they become brides of Christ.…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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

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

[My muse] is, in fact, a woman of the world, and precisely because of this, hopes that a diversity of cultures will endure, and…

— Quentin S. Crisp

All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson from the…

— Allan Bloom

I used to think I was a gay man with this idea of a muse in my head, like a woman that I thought…

— Hari Nef