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I don't know if I've ever had a muse per se. I would say that the woman I'm inspired by exists more in my sketchbooks. She exists in my head.
— Erdem Moralioglu
To me the Muses truly gave / An envied and a happy lot: / E'en when I lie within the grave, / I cannot, shall not, be forgot.
— Sappho
Clio, the muse of history, is as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Poetry is not a mere expression of a poet's self, but an enchantment, a spell of the muse, the inspiration. Poetry is thus magic and magic is poetry.
— Shilpa Sandesh
She is the fragrance of a dozen jasmines.
— Avijeet Das
I am tired of loving a foreign muse.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
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.
— Jonathan Tropper
Muse is a tyrant. It gets you out of bed in the twilight of the morning and forces you to create something!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Solace of Silence
surreal synapses
of a melancholy drone
a dream per chance
she dared not be alone ... — Muse
surreal synapses
of a melancholy drone
a dream per chance
she dared not be alone ... — Muse
Calico Kitty
My calico kitty
was painted and primed
she could prowl
the night away ~
without spending a dime... — Muse
My calico kitty
was painted and primed
she could prowl
the night away ~
without spending a dime... — Muse
You do violence with your words if you force them - art is given - the words received, moment by moment from unseen hands - call it a Muse ...
— John Geddes
Art is the extended arm of your imagination, The feast of inspiration for your muse. Art isn't just creativity, its a way of life.
— Sarah Curran
my poetry is merely a body.
you are the soul in my words. — Sanober Khan
you are the soul in my words. — Sanober Khan
Nurture your mind, body and spirit. Grow your Muse and you will lead a fulfilled life.
— Gail McMeekin
I have played in every toilet but you still want to spoil it to prove I've made a big mistake
— Muse
Fashion is a MUSE, you must seduce her.
— Anna Dello Russo
You can only use someone for so long before you dry them out. How long does a muse last? When do you let them loose?
— Coco J. Ginger
I'd Drown For You
I opened my heart to you
A complete immersion
I offered my soul to you
A heavenly diversion — Muse
I opened my heart to you
A complete immersion
I offered my soul to you
A heavenly diversion — Muse
I'm only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.
— May Sarton
Speaking Akil's name around Stefan felt like throwing gasoline on a bushfire." ~ Muse
— Pippa DaCosta
Sometimes I wish I could sneak a peek into that mind of yours and see what you're thinking. Especially when you smile at me like that. ~ Oliver Sand
— Chris Kuhn
I'm really lucky because my mom is a good beauty muse.
— Elizabeth Jagger
Lots of you know me as a lone, hard-bitten columnist, prone to lurking on deserted rocky promontories while searching for my muse.
— Cynthia Heimel
Muse - A sleep depriving creature of the night!
— K.D. Faerydae
It's really just paint. I muse on that, sometimes, Jamie. When I can't sleep. How a little paint can make shallow water seem deep.
— Stephen King
I didn't really think of myself as being a muse.
— Jane Birkin
Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.
— Homer
I've had recurring nightmares that I was loved for who I am ... and missed the opportunity to be a better man.
— Muse
Throughout her life, she behaved as if she had never heard anyone suggest that a woman couldn't do entirely as she pleased.
— Francine Prose
Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, 'Do this, do that,' but it's my demon who provokes me.
— Ray Bradbury
in astronomy class, the muse urania angrily watches a panel of men talk about the wonders of the stars as though they created them.
— Salma Deera
Tender Ember
... Barred and branded
to be forever unloved
I was a tender ember
seeking solace from above ... — Muse
... Barred and branded
to be forever unloved
I was a tender ember
seeking solace from above ... — Muse
Nothingness
... there in this place
where nothingness takes
but for the glimmer
a steadfast shimmer
all would be consumed ... — Muse
... there in this place
where nothingness takes
but for the glimmer
a steadfast shimmer
all would be consumed ... — Muse
If there is a single person at the nexus of fantasy literature, it is Terri Windling
as editor, as writer, as painter, as muse. — Jane Yolen
as editor, as writer, as painter, as muse. — Jane Yolen
Everyone has left me
except my muse,
that good nurse.
She stays in my hand,
a mild white mouse. — Anne Sexton
except my muse,
that good nurse.
She stays in my hand,
a mild white mouse. — Anne Sexton
I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts babe we know it, that you weren't much of a muse, but then, I weren't much of a poet.
— Nick Cave
If you schlep a shit job everyday, keep and feed a little secret life
whether it's writing, art, running, music, your thoughts. It's yours. — Don Roff
whether it's writing, art, running, music, your thoughts. It's yours. — Don Roff
To become the love of a poet is to become both a muse and an immortal all at the same time.
— Jennifer Megan Varnadore
My muse changes all the time because I think every designer is a bit of a muse for themselves in a way - they just don't want to say it.
— Donatella Versace
I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.
— Tori Amos
I'm a big advocate of breastfeeding.
— Arizona Muse
All I want for my birthday is a date with my muse Christina Aguilera Is that too much for a guy to ask for?
— Ocean Crisstopher Poet
Being human was a lot more difficult than it looked. Demon was easy. Demon was simple. Human was ... terrifying. Muse
— Pippa DaCosta
Every writer should know their target. Aim for the heart ~ hit that and all which follows is sheer ecstasy.
— Muse
Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.
— Cassandra Wilson
I remember my mom saying that after you have a baby you get really thin. So you gain all that weight and then you just lose it and keep losing it.
— Arizona Muse
I get a kick out of cursing people for life on Sundays.
— Emily Kirby
Beat me, hurt me, fight me and I'll bounce back, but be nice to me? I folded quicker than a banker in a high-stakes poker game.
— Pippa DaCosta
I say, dress to please yourself. Listen to your inner muse and take a chance. Wear something that says 'Here I am!' today.
— Iris Apfel
My ultimate search has been for a muse.
— Dominic Monaghan
Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse.
— Mickey Hart
A book is a living breathing piece of art and you are just the person it chose to channel its story. Be humble.
— Lori Lesko
Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.
— Robert Breault
Cross my heart, and hope to die. Bake a demon in a pie.
— Pippa DaCosta
Your mind is a book; God is the pen.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.
— Ray Bradbury
She's my best friend." My muse, my brush, my artistry, my heart. All of its dead without her. "I love her.
— A.G. Howard
The Muse is not real. Relying on the Muse is like leaning on a crutch made of playing cards.
— Chuck Wendig
Make a habit of inviting demons over?" "Yeah, actually. Wednesdays are movie nights. They bring the snacks.
— Pippa DaCosta
You know, I auditioned for 'Titanic.' Sometimes I muse on what would have happened. That would have been such a different life.
— Ethan Hawke
I'm lucky with my skin - it doesn't require a lot of attention, so I keep things simple. And I drink a lot of water.
— Arizona Muse
Melancholy isn't a sign of the book's end; it is its inspiration. Melancholy is reading's muse.
— Andrew Piper
Copywriting is a design muse, it carves a beautiful masterpiece in an imaginative way.
— Sharen Song
I was following my muse and I was very fortunate in having good people around me and it turned out to be a pretty good recording in my opinion.
— Ronnie Montrose
True poetry (inspired by the Muse and her prime symbol, the moon) even today is a survival, or intuitive re-creation, of the ancient Goddess-worship.
— Robert Graves
You should treat a muse like a fairy.
— Paulo Coelho
The Muse herself makes some men inspired, from whom a chain of other men is strung out who catch their own inspiration from theirs.
— Plato
I love you, Lucien, but I am a muse, you are an artist, I am not here to make you comfortable.
— Christopher Moore
Every time I hear writers talk about 'the muse,' I just want to bitch-slap them. It's a job. Do your job.
— Nora Roberts
I can assure you, as anyone who has ever met a muse knows, the best way to get a muse to hang around is to show you could be having fun without her.
— Z.A. Maxfield
Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.
— Plato
A Guardian is only as strong as its Muse.
— Susie M. Hanley
The muse of invention handed me a rifle and I shot a white bear who sat down and said: Ah.
— Vladimir Nabokov
...in search of my creative muse while writing a novel.
— Atlas Brown
Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.
— Robert Genn
One day you will have vengeance, little half-blood. You will stand upon a wasteland littered with your dead kin and you will be free.
— Pippa DaCosta
Arts without a spiritual relative is like frying buns with water.
— Michael Bassey Johnson