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Muse Quotes (page 4)

A weapon based on Time . . ." mused Viktor Mulciber. "Well, why not? The one force no one knows how to defeat, resist, or reverse. It kills all forms of life sooner or later. With a Time-weapon you could become the most feared person in history." "I'd rather be loved," said Root. Mulciber shrugged. "You're young. Thomas Pynchon
William Wordsworth quote: "A cheerful life is what the Muses love, A soaring spirit is..."
A cheerful life is what the Muses love, A soaring spirit is their prime delight. William Wordsworth
Underneath the quarrels, the misunderstandings, the apparent hostility of everyday life, a real and true affection can exist. Married life, I mused, as I went to bed, was a curious thing. Agatha Christie
Stephen King quote: "The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited."
The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited. Stephen King
If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman. Socrates
Homer quote: "Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that..."
Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Homer
William Shakespeare quote: "O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend. The brightest heaven..."
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend. The brightest heaven of invention! William Shakespeare
In the year of Christ 1571, at the age of thirty-eight, on the last day of February, anniversary of his birth, Michel de Montaigne, lon weary of the servitude of the court and of public employments, while still entire, retired to the bosom of the learned Virgins [Muses], where in calm and freedom from all cares he will spend what little remains of his life now more than half run out. If the fates permit, he will completethis abode, this sweet ancestral retreat; and he has consecrated it to... Michel de Montaigne
She sighed once, wishing she had a talent for the details of telling stories. She wasn't bad at themes, she mused, but she could never figure out how to turn a theme into an engaging tale. Nora Roberts
My Dolphin, you only guide me by surprise, a captive as Racine, the man of craft, drawn through his maze of iron compositionby the incomparable wandering voice of Phdre. When I was troubled in mind, you made for my bodycaught in its hangman's-knot of sinking lines, the glassy bowing and scraping of my will. . . . I have sat and listened to too manywords of the collaborating muse, and plotted perhaps too freely with my life, not avoiding injury to others, not avoiding injury to myself--to ask... Robert Lowell
John Milton quote: "I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse..."
I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down. The dark descent, and up to reascend... John Milton
Alfred de Vigny quote: "The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these..."
The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives Alfred de Vigny
Man understood in the end what man is. He renounces the analysis of God, penetrating the impalpable, in which he has not seen, to give laws to the phantasms of his brain. Man understands that his inheritance is the greater world whose dominion is within his grasp. Tired of useless and presumptuous labor he bows his head and looks about him, and now he sees how our poets are born. Little by little nature's muses open their treasures and start to smile upon us, and lead us far from such labors. Jose Rizal
I look at you and you look at me anddeep in our hearts know it. That you weren't much of a muse, but then I weren't much of a poet Nick Cave
Poor Aubrey: I hope he will get all right. He brought a strangely new personality to English art, and was a master in his way of fantastic grace, and the charm of the unreal. His muse had moods of terrible laughter. Behind his grotesques there seemed to lurk some curious philosoph? Oscar Wilde

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