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To me the Muses truly gave / An envied and a happy lot: / E'en when I lie within the grave, / I cannot, shall not, be forgot. — Sappho

Professional writers don't have muses; they have mortgages. — Larry Kahaner

Are all firefighters as hot as you? — Lisa Kessler

A cheerful life is what the Muses love, A soaring spirit is their prime delight. — William Wordsworth

I'm the king of bad ideas. — Lisa Kessler

I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music. — Lou Doillon

Jodi Orgill Brown is inspired by people who live fulfilled lives in spite of their struggles. She loves spending time with her muses, — Jodi Orgill Brown

Landmarks to the muses that inspired the music. When I could tell it was sincere without trying to prove it — Drake

Soul mates are muses. The people in your life you despise, disrespect and desire the most. — Coco J. Ginger

Your eyes make me pick up my pen and write. — Avijeet Das

Last night, I was a mad man searching for a whiff of your fragrance. The stars and the moon even laughed at me. — Avijeet Das

Most people, he muses, they're trying to escape from boredom, but I'm trying to get into the thick of boredom. — Haruki Murakami

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited. — Stephen King

Muses have bullwhips and aren't afraid to use them, just sayin — E.T. Malinowski

Muses had a way of killing those whom they inspired. — Katherine Neville

Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons. — Wes Nisker

We pursued the muses, instead of the mirrors. — Adam Gopnik

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

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon. — Christian Nestell Bovee

If history has taught us anything, Arthur muses, it is that men with mustaches must never achieve positions of power. — Tom Rachman

I will not stop singing
the Muses who set me dancing. — Anne Carson

And the truth shall set you free," the Pillar muses. "Free enough to kill one another." "Stop — Cameron Jace

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

I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts. — Franco Zeffirelli

Dawn is a friend of the muses, even if they aren't awake to appreciate it. — Kimberly Morgan

You are lovelier than all the roses in the world. — Avijeet Das

Why don't you come with me to the station? We can talk, and I'll treat you to a bad cup of coffee."
"You make it sound pretty tempting. — Lisa Kessler

There is no wide road which leads to the Muses. — Propertius

A digital wall of masks stared back at him. His finger rolled the mouse in a slow downward scroll.
Okay, you bastard. Where are you? — Lisa Kessler

The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured. — Charles Lamb

I'm a sucker for a guy with scars, so for your protection, we should probably stick to the case."
"I'm not scared. — Lisa Kessler

Inspiration comes from somewhere else, and some people merely act as lightning rods for inspiration. There's nothing great about them. — Cockballs

I get a kick out of cursing people for life on Sundays. — Emily Kirby

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth. — Hesiod

I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die. — Kristin Hersh

A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop. — Benjamin Franklin

The nine Greek Muses, awakened again for this generation of man and meant to inspire mankind forward in the sciences and the arts. — Lisa Kessler

Writing is the light of imagination playing over shadow of thoughts. — Khaled Talib

Life, he muses, always gives you an excuse to take what you want anyway. — Don Winslow

She kissed his chest. "Thanks for letting me into your heart."
He tucked her hair behind her ear. "You walked in like you had a key. — Lisa Kessler

And as for the enlightened, one can only pity them the deceptions of their muses. — Alex Stein

The Muses inspire art and pretend not to notice when Mammon buys it. — Mason Cooley

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I had only to open my bedroom window, and blue air, love, and flowers entered with her. — Marc Chagall

I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous. — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled. — Charles De Lint

Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work. — Tom Rachman

Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll. — Helen Hanson

With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

She [Kim Kardashian] was always my muse, now she's become other designers' muses. — Kanye West

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast. — Buddha

The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric. — James Broughton

I love you, Lucien, but I am a muse, you are an artist, I am not here to make you comfortable. — Christopher Moore

You forget," I said, "I'm a writer and the Muses are the daughters of Memory. — Aldous Huxley

Grey time-worn marbles Hold the pure Muses. In their cool gallery, By yellow Tiber, They still look fair. — Matthew Arnold

We hold hands together delicately and sublimely and look longingly into each other's eyes. — Avijeet Das

We've all got crazy ideas that tickle and nag. Let's turn up the volume on these great work muses. Allow them to germinate, mature and grow. — David Sturt

Homer tucks in his unwritten words for the night as ocean muses seduce his dreams with swelling songs heard in search of undiscovered paladins. — J.D. Tulloch

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks. — Mary Ritter Beard

The muses visit when I'm lonely. — Taylor Hicks

Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine:
A tenth is Sappho, maid divine. — Plato

I kept reaching for my muses,
my wandering muses, floating
on clouds filled with their passions.
(Muses of Wandering Passions, p. 64) — Chimnese Davids

Here will I live in the rainy season, here in the autumn and in the summer: thus muses the fool. He realizes not the danger (of death). — Gautama Buddha

Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat. — Lucille Kallen

The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it. — Elizabeth Montagu

True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work. — Robert Genn

Inspiration before intercourse. — Lisa Kessler

I go forth to seek To seek and claim the lovely magic garden Where grasses softly sigh and Muses speak. — Anna Akhmatova

Yet the companions of the Muses
will keep their collective nose in my books
And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune. — Ezra Pound

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment. — Karl Lagerfeld

I shall live here in the rains,
There in winter,
Elsewhere in summer, muses the fool,
Not aware of the nearness of death. — Gautama Buddha