Muse Quotes - Page 6

• Change shakes us up, and we can thank our Muse for it... we are driven by change to create, to excel, and to become better humans, perhaps even more sensitive humans!

  Max Elliott Slade

  Change, Sensitive, Driven

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• The other me, who did not mean to drown herself, went under the sea and remained there for a long time. Eventually she surfaced near Japan and people gave her gifts but she had been so long under the sea she did not recognize what they were. She is a sly one. Mostly at night we commune. Night. Harbinger of dream and nightmare and bearer of omens which defy the music of words. In the morning the fear of her going is very real and very alarming. It can make one tremble. Not that she cares. She is the muse. I am the messenger.

  Edna O'Brien

  Dream, Morning, Real

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• What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,’.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. 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.

  Maya Angelou

  Cat, Writing, Two

  "Famous Writers Share How They Handle Writer’s Block" by Jeryl Brunner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 29, 2015.

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• I think my muse is all around me...at least the opportunities for creation are all around. I especially enjoy being in my home and with my family. Families do so many things to center us. At least that is true for me. I think all my stories come from a very real, heartfelt place...a desire to connect and be connected.

  Jerdine Nolen

  Real, Home, Opportunity

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse...

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  New Orleans, Essence, Soul

  "Fats Domino Found in New Orleans" by Gina Serpe, www.eonline.com. September 1, 2005.

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• Nature's my muse and it's been my passion.

  Frans Lanting

  Passion, My Passion

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• I often feel like the woman in your life is your driving force. She's your muse. She plays a big role in determining how confident you feel when you walk out the door. She can add 1,000 kilowatts of energy - or drain that out of you. She said, "No, you're not that funny." I thought, She knows better than anyone.

  Trevor Noah

  Play, Doors, Energy

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the a.non.y.muse roller that passed upon my life a certain intricate watermark whose unique design becomes visible when the lamp of art is made to shine through life's foolscap.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Unique, Design

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• Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.

  Horace

  Wine, Dry Up, Smell

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• I like to follow my own muse.

  Mark Alan Stamaty

  My Own

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The muse appears at the point in my writing when I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything cracks open, the writing is freed, the lanuage is full, resources are plentiful, ideas pour forth, and to be frank, some of these ideas surprise me. It seems as thought the universe is my friend and is helping me write, its hand over mine.

  Amy Tan

  Moving, Writing, Ideas

  Amy Tan (2003). “The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life”, p.167, Penguin

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• Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader browner shade; Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think.

  Thomas Gray

  Thinking, Water, Rude

  1748 Ode on the Spring, l.11-16.

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• As a general rule, those who are dissatisfied with themselves will seek to go out of themselves into an ideal world. Persons in strong health and spirits, who take plenty of air and exercise, who are "in favor with, their stars," and have a thorough relish of the good things of this life, seldom devote themselves in despair to religion or the muses. Sedentary, nervous, hypochondriacal people, on the contrary, are forced, for want of an appetite for the real and substantial, to look out for a more airy food and speculative comforts.

  William Hazlitt

  Strong, Stars, Real

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• I'm really lucky because my mom is a good beauty muse.

  Elizabeth Jagger

  Mom, Lucky, My Mom

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather
  of mind got clarity new-found;
  now free, I once more weave together
  emotion, thought, and magic sound.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Weather, Magic, Mind

  "Eugene Onegin". Book by Alexander Pushkin, 1833.

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• Sometimes I just don't have time to wait for the muse to come, so I've developed things to force the muse to come back.

  Dan Mangan

  Waiting, Sometimes, Force

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• And when her biographer says of an Italian woman poet, 'during some years her Muse was intermitted,' we do not wonder at the fact when he casually mentions her ten children.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Children, Italian, Years

  Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

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• 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.

  Gueorgui Pinkhassov

  Running, Lying, Style

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• Woo the muse of the odd.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Odd

  Lafcadio Hearn (2002). “Lafcadio Hearn's America: Ethnographic Sketches and Editorials”, p.13, University Press of Kentucky

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• Every so often every artist feels, 'I'll never paint again. The muse has gone out the window.' In 1985, I hardly painted at all for three months, and it was agonizing. I looked at reproductions. I stared at Matisse. I stared at the Old Masters. I stared at the Quattrocento. And I thought to myself - Don't push it! If you try too hard to get at something, you almost push it away.

  Helen Frankenthaler

  Artist, Trying, Three

  "Artful Survivor". Interview with Deborah Salomon, www.nytimes.com. May 14, 1989.

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• Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.

  Stana Katic

  Men, Ruins, Illusion

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Real, Ought

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2016). “Morning & Evening”, p.528, Bible Study Steps

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• My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and animals.

  Katherine Dunn

  Animal, Reflection, Painting

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• Inspiration is a message-in-a-bo ttle from the distant shore, a window into the other world, a tap of the muse's finger, the grace of the gods. It comes when you least expect it.

  Phil Cousineau

  Inspiration, Other Worlds, Grace

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• I am mistaken if a single epigram included fails to preserve at least some faint thrill of the emotion through which it had to pass before the Muse's lips let it fall, with however exquisite deliberation.

  Arthur Quiller-Couch

  Fall, Thrill, Lips

  "The Oxford Book of English Verse". Book edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch, Introduction, 1900.

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