Muse Quotes - Page 13

• A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in the country, to live hand from mouth in Greenwich Village or to escape to the Riviera. I should not advise him even to become a magazine editor or work in a publisher's office. The poet would do better to study a profession, to become a banker or a public official or even to go in for the movies.

  Edmund Wilson

  Country, Giving Up, Hands

  Edmund Wilson (1952). “The shores of light: a literary chronicle of the twenties and thirties”

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• Wine give strenght to weary men. and
  And wine can of their wits the wise beguile.
  Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile. and
  Let those who drink not, but austerely dine,
  Dry up in law; the muses smell of wine. and
  No poem was ever written by a drinker of water. and
  Bacchus opens the gate of the heart. and
  Might to inspire new hopes and powerful
  To drown the bitterness of cares.

  Homer

  Wise, Powerful, Heart

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• Instead of discussing with myself every morning whether I feel inspired or not, I step into my office every day at nine sharp, open the window and politely ask the muse to enter and kiss me. Sometimes she comes in, more often she does not. But she can never claim that she hasn't found me waiting in the right place.

  Peter Prange

  Morning, Kissing, Office

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• I don't really like the world 'muse.'

  Craig McDean

  World

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• Everyone always asks me who my muse is, or who's the girl I have in mind, which is such a hard question for me to answer because I feel like it's a sensibility that varies for each individual.

  Alexander Wang

  Girl, Mind, Answers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Lou Doillon

  Men, Awe, Raised

  "Lou Doillon Opens Up About Her Music Career, Growing Up Birkin, and 'Desperately Needing Men'" by Lizzy Goodman, www.elle.com. October 16, 2013.

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• I didn't really think of myself as being a muse.

  Jane Birkin

  Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you look at the greatest models, it was because they were muses to photographers. They collaborated with the artist and they created the kind of images that become iconic.

  Michael Flutie

  Artist, Looks, Photographer

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I believe it's impossible to write good poetry without reading. Reading poetry goes straight to my psyche and makes me want to write. I meet the muse in the poems of others and invite her to my poems. I see over and over again, in different ways, what is possible, how the perimeters of poetry are expanding and making way for new forms.

  Denise Duhamel

  Believe, Reading, Writing

  Interview with Karla Huston, www.smartishpace.com. 2004.

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• Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Intuition, Way, Action

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.41, Penguin

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• I try to, at least once or twice a week, have someone over and model, usually a dancer friend or a poet or someone to come over and just stay still for me. Depending on how exhibitionist they are, it will determine the finished work. And I say, "You're the muse; you come up with it. I'll draw you however you want."

  Eric Drooker

  Dancer, Trying, Want

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't know if I've ever had a muse per se. I would say that the woman I'm inspired by exists more in my sketchbooks. She exists in my head.

  Erdem Moral?oglu

  Sketchbooks, Inspired, Knows

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as they write, they begin to wake up to a larger connection. After a while, people tend to find that there is some muse that they are connecting to.

  Julia Cameron

  Spiritual, Writing, Practice

  "The Artist's Way". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. January 23, 2014.

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• Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.

  Dick Cavett

  Years, Knowing, Soul

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• I wonder why anyone would hesitate to be generous with their writing. I mean, if you really want to make a living, go to Wall Street and trade oil futures ... We're writers. We're doing something that is inherently a generous act. We're exposing ourselves to the muse and to the things that frighten us. Why do that if you're not willing to be generous? And paradoxically, almost ironically, it turns out that the more generous you are, the more money you make. But that's secondary. For me, the privilege of being generous is why I get to do this.

  Seth Godin

  Wall, Writing, Mean

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• I get really antsy if I stay in one place too long. Universal was really supportive and understood that I needed to go across the Atlantic to reinvent myself and to find my voice, my muse.

  Stella Soleil

  Voice, Long, Supportive

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• When I'm in Los Angeles, it's hard to be creative. For me, New Orleans is one of those places that's like a muse. You can hear music on the streets. There's a certain character the city has that inspires you when you're needing to write lyrics and come up with melodies and come up with rhythm and blues. The city has a pulse and it's an inspiration for me.

  Chris Thomas King

  Inspiration, Writing, Character

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• Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind, politics and religion. He doesn't want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.

  Mark Twain

  Heart, Thinking, Two

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• I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, People, Inspire

  "Taylor Swift Exits Her Comfort Zone, But Still Sings About Love" by Jennifer Exley, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 22, 2012.

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• I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

  Euripides

  Fate, Men, Stronger

  "Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

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• My muse is very often, in my mind, a nagger. She nags me.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Mind

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• It's super-essential. Even though I don't have a very big team, for me, the word muse may be démodé or not. I adore it, but I am also one, in my delirium, to be quite classical. For a designer - especially a male designer - he absolutely has to have that female voice by his side, which he listens to, he filters, he digests. It's a huge need, because when you see through the eyes of a man, you see a woman a certain way, and how they have little tricks of their own.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Team, Eye, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Fashion is a MUSE, you must seduce her.

  Anna Dello Russo

  Fashion, Seducing

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• Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages. Let not what should be sauce, rather than food for you, engross all your application. Beware of a boundless and sickly appetite for the reading of poems which the nation now swarms withal; and let not the Circaen cup intoxicate you. But especially preserve the chastity of your soul from the dangers you may incur, by a conversation with muses no better than harlots.

  Cotton Mather

  Reading, Soul, Cups

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

  Drake

  Real, Trying, Inspired

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