File under "Hard Truths": the creative muse is fiction. If you sit around waiting for the right moment to create, you will die waiting. - Antony Johnston
Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal. - William S. Burroughs
Lollypop...the passion contained merely kissesplaced upon lips, neck and cheekthese young lovers of the castleof which our fairytale speaks... - Muse
Don't analyse your muse too closely, if at all – she'll turn away. - David John Griffin
Don't waste your time or time will waste you. - Muse
The Muse herself makes some men inspired, from whom a chain of other men is strung out who catch their own inspiration from theirs. - Plato
Sing, Muse, of the anger of Achilles, son of Peleus... - Homer
I don't write to chase away my demons ~I wield my pen as a weapon...calling those bastards to war! - Muse
My Muse sits forlornShe wishes she had not been bornShe sits in the coldNo word she says is ever told. - Stevie Smith
The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil. - Michael Bassey Johnson
If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book! - Kerry Greenwood
I’ll be blasted’, he said, ‘if I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Nick Greene or the Muse. Bad, good, or indifferent, I’ll write, from this day forward, to please myself - Virginia Woolf
I cannot remember you when the rain flows down -I cannot remember youandmy heart begins to drown ... - Muse
Love can be such a mysterious muse and seductress... spinning her magical web of stardust and emotional euphoria. True love sang her siren song and we wrapped that song around us like the sweetest melody. - Jaeda DeWalt
Deadlines help me, but my muse hates them. My muse functions in fits and starts, and tends to take very long vacations. Deadlines are like a hot poker to his ass. They force us both to sit down and write, which is what it takes to do this. - Alistair Cross
Wanderess, Wanderess, weave us a story of seduction and ruse. Heroic be the Wanderess, the world be her muse. - Roman Payne
When the door to my writing chamber gasps shut and the almost imperceptible sigh of a rose petal falls on my desk, I know that my muse is present. - Brandi L. Bates
We all need a muse. Someone to inspire us, to help us see the world with different eyes, and makes us want to be better than we are. - MJ Natali
MotherHushed and sacred silencefills the dawning skyI ponder in this momentof our journey which is nigh... - Muse
Lately the muse has been treating me like Ike treated Tina. - Quentin R. Bufogle
Don't keep your Muse locked up in the closet. Set them free to dance across the page and what they create will be a masterpiece. - Michelle C. Hillstrom
Sensuality is beautiful, and dominance and submission in the right context is a passionate art. A muse which ignites the flame of femininity, enrapturing both partners in complete euphoria, magnifying both the masculine and the feminine in one tantalizing unit. - Sai Marie Johnson
The Muse honors the working stiff. - Steven Pressfield
For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue — that I had to do the job myself. - Anaïs Nin
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. - Ray Bradbury
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
What magic is this?' the muse says to the man. 'A flower, a dream, a fairy-tale wish,' the man says to his muse. The muse smiles. - Adam Scott Wolf
Everything about you resonates happinessNo I won't settle for less - Muse
Drawing up her spear, Ellemist lunged towards the mighty leviathan. - Muse
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse. - Sappho
I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have known from my infancy - their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with a superhuman fancy - It is because they are connected with the most thoughtless and happiest moments of our lives. - John Keats
Be determined. Be persistent. Be consistent," the muse said. "Then he looked at me and winked. "Never give up, dumb-ass. - Lani Brown
When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language. - D.H. Lawrence
Clio, the muse of history, is as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis. - Arthur Schopenhauer
Follow through.Make your dreams come true.Don't give up the fight.You will be alright.Cause there's no one like you in the universe - Muse
I'm not a big fan of inspiration. I'm too old to sit and wait for the muse to give me a little kiss... I write a lot, and I'm not afraid to make mistakes or to write badly. I can alsways fix something weak and dull. But I can't fix a blank page. - Ron Koertge
David Bowie was my creative northstar, a muse, an inspiration to me from the age of 8. He was a special soul on a mission, and the mission is now complete. I know he is truly home now among the stars. - Eileen Anglin
The most potent muse of all is our own inner child. - Stephen Nachmanovitch
One must give himself completely to his art and not hold back. Throw caution to the wind. Embrace the muse. Make love to your art. - Harley King
To become the love of a poet is to become both a muse and an immortal all at the same time. - Jennifer Megan Varnadore
The muse is fickle; ergo, when she knocks, ANSWER! It may take a while, but trust me, she WILL knock. In the meantime, keep your ear pressed firmly to the door. - Quentin R. Bufogle
I shall adopt new Muse as fast as they appear to be true Muse. - Abraham Lincoln
The muse is the mystic force, but you are the master. - A.D. Posey
I ache not from need -but from my heart's gluttony of you. - Muse
Every writer should know their target. Aim for the heart ~ hit that and all which follows is sheer ecstasy. - Muse
It's the witching hour once more-When the Muse comes out to play.He calls me through that magic door-Where galaxies of worlds await! - Belle Whittington
Ocular infidelity is unfortunately rampant in this so called "artist's world. - Muse
Forcing the muse to let thoughts flow; equals to pushing a child, into labor. - Aniruddha Sastikar
Copywriting is a design muse, it carves a beautiful masterpiece in an imaginative way. - Sharen Song
When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy. - Ovid