"[My muse] she's impatient with me, because I don't do what I should do: sit down and write."
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"You should treat a muse like a fairy."
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"In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself."
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"I was Versace's muse, I was Valentino's muse, I was Alaia's muse, Lancetti's muse, Calvin Klein's, Halston's. I could go on and on."
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"Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine."
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"There is no architect Can build as the Muse can; She is skilful to select Materials for her plan."
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"My muse is very often, in my mind, a nagger. She nags me."
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"I'm always resisting [my muse]. I'm resisting her power."
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"I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet."
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"I'm surrounded by men, and the muse is complaining that I have neglected her."
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"I'm not sure why my muse is female, except when I am deliberately playing against that figure."
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"There are a couple of poems I've written with masculine muses, very often the muse to me is a female."
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"Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse."
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"It's why muse is so impatient with me. I don't ever go to her until after the teaching or whatever is over."
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"So I fancy my Muse says, when I wish to die, Oh no, Oh no, we are not yet friends enough, And Virtue also says: We are not yet friends enough."
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"The artist who chooses the difficult muse; or only has a difficult muse; should not be surprised with the results."
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"She [Kim Kardashian] was always my muse, now she's become other designers' muses."
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"Tell me, O muse, of travellers far and wide"
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"Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy."
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"I do not know whether I would not like much better to have produced one perfectly formed child by intercourse with the muses than by intercourse with my wife."
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