Muse Quotes

Your love opened up a whole world that no amount of books or wisdom could ever do.

~ Kamand Kojouri

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

~ Stephen King

There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.

~ Sappho

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 fall in love with pain is to fall in love with art.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Masochists hold on to broken people. Artists hold on to broken memories.

~ Dominic Riccitello

She was in awe of all his work. 'How do you do it? she asked.He smiled and said, 'By loving you.

~ Kamand Kojouri

All I need to dois place my pen against paperand your lovewrites for me.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Musicians do not get on stage without hearing the song singing inside of them. Poets do not write as if they are jotting down a sermon, they see everything in their subconscious before presenting it to the conscious, which they later turn to  readable materials. Artist do not draw and paint without painting in dream states, trance, or see an art form that others do not see. Being creative does not calls for being any supernatural entity, but in creating with the entities inside of you.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

He'd failed them, the swimming goldfish of his life's tiny existence whom he held so dear in his heart; he'd turned his muses into mistakes and no one knew the difference but him.

~ Luke Taylor

No connection can ever be broken if love holds tight at both ends.

~ Shannon L. Alder

A true leader leads for the sake of love and his knowledge of the path, a bad leader redirects his followers to the path of destruction.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

To see her is to be seduced by her.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Sometimes he does talk back, but sometimes he doesn’t. Sometimes he’s not there; and from time to time I believe this was all nothing but imaginary.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Often the Muse will not respond to direct and logical requests. She must be lured in with the playful and gentle.

~ Jill Badonsky

He always thought a muse should be sex on legs.

~ Lauren Beukes

There’s nothing worse than being violently jerked away from creativity.

~ Aaron B. Powell

Forcing the muse to let thoughts flow; equals to pushing a child, into labor.

~ Aniruddha Sastikar

I'm not a concept. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to 'make them alive'…but I'm just a fucked up girl who's looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours.

~ Charlie Kaufman

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

A sacrifice is not about expecting God to break the bond you have with another person. You make the sacrifice on your own because God is more important than the bond.

~ Shannon L. Alder

In Poems of Love and Light: The Light of The Sun…Our Breath as One, the tenor seems to have changed slightly, as the progression of Love and lovers is, in many cases (if not all) quixotic, dependent upon mutual understanding, the conditions of the moment, the awareness of the future, as well as the mundane life, in which we all must exist, embracing real life, as is the natural state, which sentient individuals traverse – illusion may help those in the ‘moment’, but does nothing for the long-term, except misdirect it.Poetry has always been a way to leave something for those who come after, a legacy of inspiration, methodology, spirit, love, emotion, historical sense and utility, depending upon the subject matter, intentions of the bard, and the situations, which frame the creation of that sense of experience, with which the Poet receives his Muse. Poems of Love and Light: In The Light of the Sun, Our Breath as One

~ Frank L. Desilva

Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance...

~ Edgar Degas

Deal resistance a death blow and make sweet love to your art all night long. Put on your fishnet thigh highs and your patent leather stilettos and your special occasion lingerie. Seduce the hell out of your own creative soul. It’s time for an epic lap dance. Dance for your paint and canvas, for fingers tripping across keyboard, for the open arms of motherhood, for the layers of flavor in the meals you create. Wind your hips down for the click of the shutter, for the 3 a.m. bathroom poem, for the late night lesson planning

~ Jeanette Leblanc

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

Creativity is when a stupid clever soul gets up from bed and do amazing things that makes the world think he is wise.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

When there is silence, Give your voice. When there is darkness, Shine your light. When there is desperation, Offer hope.

~ Tim Fargo

Lovely thoughts came flying to meet me like birds. They weren't my thoughts. I couldn't think anything half so exquisite. They came from somewhere.

~ L.m. Montgomery

Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look stupid, instead, walk around with a blank mind and something from somewhere will fill it up.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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

Arts without a spiritual relative is like frying buns with water.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Hallo, Pooh,” said Rabbit.“Hallo, Rabbit,” said Pooh dreamily.“Did you make that song up?”“Well, I sort of made it up,” said Pooh. “It isn’t Brain,” he went on humbly, “because You Know Why, Rabbit; but it comes to me sometimes.”“Ah!” said Rabbit, who never let things come to him, but always went and fetched them.

~ A.a. Milne

Become my muse. And let me paint you with my words...

~ Avijeet Das

sometimes i wake upin the middleof the nightand findpoetry splatteredall over my bed.

~ Sanober Khan

You can lead and motivate people without a certificate or title, what you need to do is to tell people a compelling secret that was only known to you.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

...why is my cat a Muse? the cat has the rare grace of never saying a word too much― Mark Twain ...that's why ...

~ John Geddes

Writing is mental exercise and the preeminent method to train the mind to achieve a desirable state of mental quietude. Meditative writing, a single pointed concentration of mental activity, induces an altered state of consciousness. Writing is studious rumination, a means to converse with our personal muse. Writing entails a period of forced solitude that enables us to meet and conduct a searching conversation with our authentic self. This contemplative dialogue with our true self is transformational. Writing is not a mere act but a journey of the mind into heretofore-unknown frontiers of the self.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Remember, the village idiot was the spiritual man who built the ark and saved his family. Keep being you and never give up marching to the beat of your own drum!

~ Shannon L. Alder

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

People are dying out there, and I’m not faring much better.”“Worrying about the demise of anonymous people won’t bring them back.”Pursing my lips, I planted a hand on a hip. “How very demon of you.”“Thank you.”“That wasn’t a compliment.”~ Muse & Akil

~ Pippa Dacosta