The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
Anais NinRead
You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared, at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage.
Interpretation
This quote expresses the deep connection and shared experiences between two people in love.
Anais Nin's quote highlights the profound bond that forms between individuals who truly love each other. She conveys that love is not just about physical presence, but about a shared emotional and imaginative journey. Each person carries a piece of the other within them, created through shared dreams, experiences, and madness. This sentiment underscores the importance of connection and mutual understanding in meaningful relationships.
In practice
This quote could be shared at a wedding to celebrate the shared journey of the couple.
The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.
We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there.
The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself.
We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my descent into a sensuality which was as dark, as magnificent, as wild, as my moments of mystic creation have been dazzling, ecstatic, exalted.
In this world, there is no clarity. There is only love and action.
It's total bullshit," he said. "The whole thing. Eighty percent survival rate and he's in the twenty percent? Bullshit. He was such a bright kid. It's bullshit. I hate it. But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?
One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the gods . . .
At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed he could stop there, that he would not be obliged to learn their sorrows; how small a thing her charm was for him now compared with the astounding terror that extended out from it like a murky halo, the immense anguish of not knowing at every moment what she had been doing, of not possessing her everywhere and always!
Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.
For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him that should he go before to grant. Without accord such as this, love is but a bond and a constraint.
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