"To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little…"

"On a hill there growes a flower, Faire befall the dainty sweete: By that flower there is a Bower Where the heavenly M…"

"The ancient Greek "oral poets" all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems b…"

"The Muses are turned gossips; they have lost The buskined step, and clear high-sounding phrase, Language of gods. Com…"

"Whether on Ida’s shady brow Or in the chambers of the East, The chambers of the Sun, that now From antient melody hav…"

"When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go... The muse is bound to re…"

"Their name, their years, spelt by th’ unletter’d muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text aroun…"

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

"It is through the Muses and far-shooting Apollo that there are singers and harpers upon the earth; but princes are of…"

"The soft, lute-finger’d Muses chaunting clear,"