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Quotes About Muse

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
Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse.
~ Mickey Hart
My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and animals.
~ Katherine Dunn
Sometimes you have the feeling that some little imp is standing behind you and dictating to you, but he gives it to you slowly, drop by drop.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
I want the principles of a timeless muse, I want to eradicate my negative views.
~ Lou Reed
There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were swept from harps attuned on Zion's hill.
~ Edward Thomson
But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.
~ Ian Hamilton Finlay
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
But Fear and the Muse in turn guard the place Where the banished poet has gone And the night that comes with quickened pace Is ignorant of dawn.
~ Anna Akhmatova
Why then we should drop into poetry.
~ Charles Dickens
To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration
~ William Blake
Saturated Arrogance...imprisoned musescried to be freeshe took away their quillsand saiddo not bother me...
~ Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
The Muse is mute when public men Applaud a modern throne.
~ William Butler Yeats
Seguramente se sentiría muy orgullosa de haber sido la compañera del hombre que había escrito aquella novela; siempre podría decir que ella había sido su inspiración. No hay edad para empezar a ejercer de musa.
~ David Foenkinos
Creativity is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around, he sits at my desk and folds his wings and I offer him whatever he wants.
~ Gary D. Schmidt
It's very strange that people would consider me a fashion muse but it's also flattering. I try to just be myself, and wear what's comfortable and makes me feel good.
~ Bethany Cosentino
Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone has left me except my muse, that good nurse. She stays in my hand, a mild white mouse.
~ Anne Sexton
The muse is blind as Cupid and skittish as Diana.
~ Mason Cooley
There is no architect Can build as the Muse can; She is skilful to select Materials for her plan.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't rush your muse. They don't punch time clocks.
~ Janette Rallison
You are an artist and I happen to be the bit of color you are using today.
~ Edith Wharton