The Muse Quotes
The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask.
Perhaps it’s time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not accomplishments, are what’s important in life.
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.
Pity! Religion has so seldom found A skilful guide into poetic ground! The flowers would spring where'er she deign'd to stray And every muse attend her in her way.
Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.
Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
The power of our Muse lies in her meaninglessness. Even the style can turn one into a slave if one does not run away from it, and then one is doomed to repeat oneself.
Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks
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.
I didn't see it as someone who worked as hard as I did. But now that Saint Laurent is part of history, it makes me a part of history, so, yes, finally it's not such a bad thing to have been a muse.
I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.
When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'
Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four; Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face, She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace.
We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.
I love him (Muse) too much, and you can't hurt someone that you love that much . . . unless you're family.
Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness
What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.
Then, rising with Aurora's light, The Muse invoked, sit down to write; Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline.
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.
If we are transparent, with nothing to hide, the gap between language and being disappears. Then the Muse can speak.
The professional will not tolerate disorder... He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not soil her gown.
Cicala to cicala is dear, and ant to ant, and hawks to hawks, but to me the muse and song.
My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told.
I remember sitting at the end of my mum's bed being fascinated by her ritual of getting dressed. It was a very methodical and considered process. I suppose you could say she was my first real muse.
Everyone has left me except my muse, that good nurse. She stays in my hand, a mild white mouse.
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.
Everyone always asks me who my muse is, or who's the girl I have in mind, which is such a hard question for me to answer because I feel like it's a sensibility that varies for each individual.
The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.
Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave, This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found, Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound.
Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.
A muse can be a mirror: a reflection of the artist's desires, anxieties, dreams and needs.
The more I learn and read about the 10th Muse i realize what a great fan base and cult following she has. I'm going to try to live up to the fantastic image of the 10th Muse!
Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.
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.
When you first awaken or before drifting off to sleep, quiet your mind, lift up your heart, muse, mull over, make discoveries. Consider, conceive, create, connect, concede that it all starts within.