Quotes About Muses

But the culture-vultures and the intellectual snobs, and the self-appointed guardians of the Muses, often frighten off the average person from the free development of this appetite.

For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.

It's amazing to be an incubator. Many of my muses have gone on to other brands.

One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.

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 Bible and Homer through Joyce and Proust.

Being an author is having angels whisper in your ear — and devils, too.

Plato said: 'He who approaches the temple of the Muses without inspiration in the belief that craftmanship alone suffices, will remain a bungler and his presumptuous poetry will be obscured by the songs of the maniacs.'

Plato said: 'He who approaches the temple of the Muses without inspiration in the belief that craftsmanship alone suffices will remain a bungler and his presumptuous poetry will be obscured by the songs of the maniacs.'

For you [muses] are divine, and you have the gifts of memory and story; but only the faintest echo of the great tale has come down to me

One expected growth, change without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.

Dawn is a friend of the muses.

I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.

Being an author is having angels whisper in your ear — and devils, too.

I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts.

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For those who do not write and who never have been stirred by the creative urge, talk of muses seems a figure of speech, a quaint conceit, but for those of us who live by the Word, our muses are as real and necessary as the soft clay of language which they help to sculpt.

Soul mates are muses. The people in your life you despise, disrespect and desire the most.

Far from Italy, far from my native TarentumI lie; and this is the worst of it—worse than death.An exile's life is no life. But the Muses loved me.For my suffering they gave me a honeyed gift:My name survives me. Thanks to the sweet MusesLeonidas will echo throughout all time.

True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work.

Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

The Muses inspire art and pretend not to notice when Mammon buys it.

With the muses of Helicon let us begin our singing.

He is happy whom the Muses love. For though a man has sorrow and grief in his soul, yet when the servant of the Muses sings, at once he forgets his dark thoughts and remembers not his troubles. Such is the holy gift of the Muses to men.