The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
Anais NinRead
Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such a moment that my true body lives.
Interpretation
This quote expresses the profound emotional connection and awakening of passion through a significant word or memory.
Anais Nin captures the essence of love and desire, illustrating how a single word, laden with meaning, can evoke deep feelings and awaken the sensual self. It suggests that memories and associations with a loved one can bring forth a powerful, visceral experience that connects us to our true selves and our physical bodies.
In practice
This quote could be shared in a romantic context to signify the power of love and memory during a wedding speech.
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.
as some strings, untouched, sound when no one is speaking. So it was when love slipped inside us.
Don't forget to love yourself.
Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your laugh to it, give, when the gravelly sand takes you, your tears to the land. To love another is something like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.
There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.
But if we have the energy of compassion and loving kindness in us, the people around us will be influenced by our way of being and living.
We love we know not what, and therefore everything allures us.
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