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• I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.

  Leonora Carrington

  Artist, Busy, My Family

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• Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony.

  Dick Schaap

  Wonderful, Driven, Alimony

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• Most people assume that a muse is a creature of perfect beauty, poise and grace. Like the creatures from Greek mythology. They're wrong. In fact, there should be a marked absence of perfection in a muse--a gaping hole between what she is and what she might be. The ideal muse is a woman whose rough edges and contradictions drive you to fill in the blanks of her character. She is the irritant to your creativity. A remarkable possibility, waiting to be formed.

  Kathleen Tessaro

  Creativity, Character, Rough Edges

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• For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them.

  Tom Glazer

  Song, Moving, Inspiration

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• For poetry, he's past his prime,
  He takes an hour to find a rhyme;
  His fire is out, his wit decayed,
  His fancy sunk, his muse a jade.
  I'd have him throw away his pen,
  But there's no talking to some men.

  Jonathan Swift

  Past, Men, Fire

  Matthew Prior, Jonathan Swift (1853). “Select poems of Prior and Swift [ed. by C. Bathurst].”, p.155

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• I didn't see it as someone who worked as hard as I did. But now that Saint Laurent is part of history, it makes me a part of history, so, yes, finally it's not such a bad thing to have been a muse.

  Loulou de la Falaise

  Saint, Has Beens, Hard

  "Loulou de la Falaise obituary" by Veronica Horwell, www.theguardian.com. November 08, 2011.

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• It's hard to act in the morning. The muse isn't even awake.

  Keanu Reeves

  Morning, Acting, Awake

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

  Franco Zeffirelli

  Art, Work, Hands

  International Herald Tribune, March 21, 1990.

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist

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• For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.

  Edmund Spenser

  Wise, Running, Men

  Edmund Spenser, Theodore Bathurst (1715). “The Works of Mr. Edmund Spenser: In Six Volumes : with a Glossary Explaining the Old and Obscure Words”, p.1473

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• 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

  Death, Summer, Autumn

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• I'm never gonna step away from stand-up. I can't. That's what got me where I am, and that's also my muse. That's how I stay level-headed. That's what keeps me going.

  Kevin Hart

  Levels, Steps, I Can

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• In my perfect imagination, with stern discipline I rise with the first bird, salute the dawn, have a healthy breakfast of fruits, wander over to my faux-oak desk, tap the On button on my Macbook Air, acknowledge the muse, and skip into the world where the story flows over the day and into the night.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Night, Air, Discipline

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Book, Imagination, Waiting

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• The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sunshine, House, Grace

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1866). “Kavanagh. Driftwood”, p.363

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• Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.

  Nick Cave

  People, Waiting, Down And

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

  James Broughton

  Joy, Whole, Astonishing

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• 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

  Alaska, Unseen, Literature

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• Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.

  Jodi Picoult

  Jobs, Writing, Thinking

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• Everybody knows that I don't have a muse. I'm not interested in that.

  Miuccia Prada

  Not Interested, Knows

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was Versace's muse, I was Valentino's muse, I was Alaia's muse, Lancetti's muse, Calvin Klein's, Halston's. I could go on and on.

  Janice Dickinson

  Goes On, Versace, Valentino

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My muse is an ungrateful harlot who’s abandoned me to actually come up with my own plots.

  Richelle Mead

  Ungrateful, Plot, Abandoned

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Shadows”, p.35, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• I struggle with enormous discrepancies: between the reality of motherhood and the image of it, between my love for my home and the need to travel, between the varied and seductive paths of the heart. The lessons of impermanance, the occasional despair and the muse, so tenuously moored, all visit their needs upon me and I dig deeply for the spiritual utilities that restore me: my love for the place, for the one man left, for my children and friends and the great green pulse of spring.

  Sally Mann

  Spiritual, Children, Spring

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• American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are as various as your land.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Art, Strong, Men

  STEPHEN VINCENT BENET (1928). “JOHN BROWN'S BODY”

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• Perhaps it’s time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not accomplishments, are what’s important in life.

  Aron Ralston

  Accomplishment, Important, Lessons

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