Muses

Famous quotes containing the word muses:

“The Muses inspire art and pretend not to notice when Mammon buys it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“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 (1807–1882)

“Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)