“O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.”
William Shakespeare
“The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.”
Stephen Nachmanovitch
“One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.”
Charles de Lint
“Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse. a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.”
Louis Untermeyer
“No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation”
Walter Bagehot
“And strictly meditate the thankless Muse.”
John Milton
“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.”
William S. Burroughs
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