I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have known from my infancy - their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with a superhuman fancy - It is because they are connected with the most thoughtless and happiest moments of our lives.
|
Sweet fire the sire of muse, my soul needs this; I want the one rapture of an inspiration. O then if in my lagging lines you miss
|
But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step-dame Studys blows...Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite,Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.
|
The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse to that of Poe, who reasoned, or feigned to reason, that the writing of a poem is an act of the intelligence. It never fails to amaze me that the classics hold a romantic theory of poetry, and a romantic poet a classical theory.
|
The Muse but served to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease, my life;
|
Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.
|
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
|
Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.
|
If I refuse My study for their politique, Which at the best is trick, The angry Muse Puts confusion in my brain.
|
O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
|
She went in there to muse on being rid Of relative beneath the coffin lid. No one was by. She stuck her tongue out; slid.
|
Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.
|
The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.
|
When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them in their graves. Here are no lyin...
|
There is no architect Can build as the Muse can; She is skilful to select Materials for her plan.
|
What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the h...
|
Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
|
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
|
The Muse is mute when public men Applaud a modern throne.
|
Methinks a certain polygamy with its troubles is the fate of almost all men. They are married to two wives: their genius (a celestial muse), a...
|
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
|
The richest of all lords is Use, And ruddy Health the loftiest Muse....
|
So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
|
Perversity is the muse of modern literature
|