The Muse Quotes
Saturated Arrogance...imprisoned musescried to be freeshe took away their quillsand saiddo not bother me...
How....will I ever truly depict you?You’re perfect, my writing isn’t.
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
...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 ...
...you want things to remain the same, which they never can, and so you’re wounded by your own feelings & resentful others don’t seem to care...
Throughout her life, she behaved as if she had never heard anyone suggest that a woman couldn't do entirely as she pleased.
You should be more carefulwhen you move, my dearwhat with you...spilling moonlightinto my poem, with a mereflick of your hand.
some poems frothand foam and rise...out of my morning cup ofmist-sweetened coffee.
...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...
...If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood—but no self- respecting writer should ever eulogize a slum...
Muse’s creations are predominately lyrical often resulting in poetic sonnets and fairytale like art.
Laughing in my ear is a muse amused by how I paint her whims on paper with silly words.
...I worship at the temple of your body and without you, I'd have no art...
And tonight the stars again ask me your name?And I just smile, playing the guessing game!
A smile, like the poet's muse, Inspires passion in the lover's heart
Never fails. Every new book I write seems impossible, writes like I'm typing from dictation, edits like I didn't write it, and finishes like I couldn't possibly have written it.
Discipline, not the Muse, results in productivity. If you write only when she beckons, your writing is not yours at all.
Never wait for your muse. Train him/her to show up to work when you do by pushing on. It's a dominant submission thing.
What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture, or fatherhood until a second such face is born.
The real comic muse is the one underwhose laughing mask tears roll down.
Sometimes, when you sleep with the enemy, waking up is the hardest part." ~ Muse
Speaking Akil’s name around Stefan felt like throwing gasoline on a bushfire." ~ Muse
If you hurt Muse, I will hunt you down, use every rusted weapon I own, cut off your precious parts and feed them to the hellhounds." Ryder
When demons call you the Mother of Destruction, sh*t gets real." Muse.
Being human was a lot more difficult than it looked. Demon was easy. Demon was simple. Human was…terrifying." Muse
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.
The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.