Shelley’s servant”. Wasn’t that a wonderful gesture of humility by someonewho was such a great poet himself? And later, Bharatiyar had his own dasan, the poet Subburathinam, who tookthe pen name Bharathidasan. Subburathinam’s poetry inspired...

Words are beads on the strings of sentences. So make a beautiful necklace!

I’ve long considered becoming a writer to be the death of nightmares. For me at least, since I started writing I hadn’t had any. Something really terrible or awful happens in a dream and you...

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

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.

Life is the muse which perfectly rhymes,Plays with the words and fills empty lines.For some, life is battle for others, it’s danceFor rich it is a party for the poor it is chance.For lovers, it’s...

I have not lived for millennia to be bested by a half-blood whore and her puppet prince.” ~ Valenti

The real comic muse is the one underwhose laughing mask tears roll down.

Stop waiting for creative inspiration. Start creating and inspire yourself along the way.

Being human was a lot more difficult than it looked. Demon was easy. Demon was simple. Human was…terrifying.” Muse

In her inestimable audacity, Julia was the catalyst in my life for something beautiful. I hadn’t anticipated her—hadn’t even wanted her, truthfully—but there she was. A little something extra that made all the difference in...

My theory is you shouldn’t apologize for believing in an idea-channeling muse. You should just be sure to feed her.

NO MUSE IS GOOD MUSETo be an Artist you need talent, as well as a wifewho washes the socks and the children,and returns phone calls and library books and types.In other words, the reason there...

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

All of us need to be in touch with a mysterious, tantalizing source of inspiration that teases our sense of wonder and goads us on to life’s next adventure.

Speaking Akil’s name around Stefan felt like throwing gasoline on a bushfire.” ~ Muse

Flora was in that state where the spirit may be willing but the flesh is weak and wishes to go on holiday – and where the flesh in most cases wins hands down with a...

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

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

There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric….But he, who, not being inspired and having no...

Outline of your frameMy paper witness your silhouetteSipping in coffeeMy muse, my Juliet.Afternoon spent,In hungry desiresEnding with a kissOn your coffee lips.

Throughout her life, she behaved as if she had never heard anyone suggest that a woman couldn’t do entirely as she pleased.

This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She...

If you hurt Muse, I will hunt you down, use every rusted weapon I own, cut off your precious parts and feed them to the hellhounds.” Ryder

Saturated Arrogance…imprisoned musescried to be freeshe took away their quillsand saiddo not bother me…

There is a muse, but he’s not going to come fluttering down into your writing room and scatter creative fairy-dust all over your typewriter or computer station. He lives in the ground. He’s a basement...

Your muse ain’t singin’ on your MTV? Can’t even see him on your HD TV?

The Muse herself makes some men inspired, from whom a chain of other men is strung out who catch their own inspiration from theirs.

Often the inspiration to write music comes from the voices in your head. You’re not crazy. Just be thankful they are not making you rescue people in 20-degree weather at 2:30 in the morning in...

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.

We’re never alone. As soon as we step outside the campfire glow, our Muse lights on our shoulder like a butterfly. The act of courage calls for infallibly that deeper part of ourselves that supports...

I curled my lip at the sight of sizzling human hair and skin clinging to my demon flesh. Damn, I’d have given anything to be back in Boston, sipping chai tea latte.” ~ Muse, Ties...

He always thought a muse should be sex on legs.

The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That’s enough, so long as she knows that she and she alone is in charge of that pencil, and responsible, she...

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 is looking for my own...

…at morning, I’m unruffled – I’ll sit with my tea and Muse Cat beside me and listen to the soft chime of the grandfather clock…

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.

If you schlep a shit job everyday, keep and feed a little secret life–whether it’s writing, art, running, music, your thoughts. It’s yours.

It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. But even if you succeed, you lose, because you’ve sold out your...

When demons call you the Mother of Destruction, sh*t gets real.” Muse.

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

How….will I ever truly depict you?You’re perfect, my writing isn’t.

Writing is the best anti-depressant.

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

I guess my husband is a muse as well.

The hours spent forming a written work can make one obsessive, distracted, compulsive, and neurotic even, especially when it comes to those rare, precious occasions of streaming pure inspiration. To have a muse moment interrupted...

Sometimes there is no right thing. Sometimes wrong wins, and that’s okay. Life doesn’t have cooker-cutters for right and wrong, Ryder. There’s that messy gray area in between, and I sure hope I’m not the...

Thus far and no farther.

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

Early in her career, Muse engaged her skills for technical purposes, such as document translation and schematic visualizations for government entities. She continued to write and paint poetically, in secret, using her pen name, Muse....