Muses Quotes

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

Good, Found, Seen

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, Old, House

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

Seen, Invisible, Worship

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.
Hesiod

Love, Happy, Sweet

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.
Karl Lagerfeld

Moment, Permanent

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.
Amy Tan

Kindness, Universe, Knows

One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.
Charles de Lint

Change, Less, Growth

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
Robert Bolt

Death, Stand, Himself

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

Joy, Whole, Gift

I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.
Kristin Hersh

Time, Die, After

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.
Miriam Beard

Women, Greeks, Succeeded

The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.
Marcus Terentius Varro

Less, Three, Stop

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

Work, Together, Hands

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