Quotes About Muse

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When Autumn's shadows idly muse And tinge the trees with many hues Amidst whose scenes I feign to dwell And sing of what I love so well

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.

If with water you fill up your glasses You'll never write anything wise But wine is the horse of Parnassus That carries a bard to the skies.

The tenth Muse who now governs the periodical press.

Disaster is my muse.

Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, since all other knowledges lie ready for any that have strength of wit; a poet no industry can make, if his own genius be not carried into it.

I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

The truth: after just one novel, I had lost touch with my muse. The quietly desperate, jaded girl in my head had stopped slinging sardonic wit into my psyche.

La musa de los pueblos / que yo vi pasar / devorada por los lobos / devorada murió. / Los huesos son de ella / los que vais a guardar».

The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.

I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.

You were always his inspiration. He imitated you.

Shipping, because it doesn't count if you don't share it. Creative, because you're not a cog in the system. You're a creator, a problem solver, a generous leader who is making things better by producing a new way forward. Work, because it's not a hobby. You might not get paid for it, not today, but you approach it as a professional. The muse is not the point, excuses are avoided, and the work is why you are here.

We worry that we're not in the right emotional moment to do our work. And mostly, we give away our agency, begging someone, anyone, to do the hard part of summoning the muse or getting us approval or a gig or support so that we can maybe, just maybe, feel the light again. It's a trap. Flow is the result of effort. The muse shows up when we do the work. Not the other way around. Set up your tools, turn off the internet, and go back to work.

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 ...

at morning, I'm unruffled - I'll sit with my tea and Muse Cat beside me and listen to the soft chime of the grandfather clock...

why is my cat a Muse? the cat has the rare grace of never saying a word too much? Mark Twain ...that's why ...

today there are bars of light on the rug, but Muse Cat prefers his tomato box where he can dream in private...

What about thy Prince? Or the Fae Queen who come to muse thee in thine illness?" "My Prince?" Will smiled at Tom. "Kit's Prince, you mean. You know, I rather suspect he's watching us now: I would be, were I in his place.

I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.

The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?

The only real inspiration or muse that I have is just the life that I live.

I struggle with enormous discrepancies: between the reality of motherhood and the image of it, between my love for my home and the need to travel, between the varied and seductive paths of the heart. The lessons of impermanance, the occasional despair and the muse, so tenuously moored, all visit their needs upon me and I dig deeply for the spiritual utilities that restore me