The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
Anais NinRead
When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote reflects the idea of openness and acceptance in friendships, emphasizing the importance of personal growth and transformation.
Anais Nin's quote suggests that true friendship does not require others to conform to existing beliefs or structures. It highlights the beauty of accepting people as they are, even if they do not fit into our current worldview, because personal worlds and perspectives are continuously evolving.
Themes
FriendshipAcceptanceGrowthOpennessPerspective
In practice
Example use cases
During a speech about personal development, one might use this quote to emphasize the importance of accepting friends for who they are.
More from Anais Nin
All quotes βAnxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.
Anais NinRead
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.
Anais NinRead
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.
Anais NinRead
We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
Anais NinRead
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.
Anais NinRead
Similar quotes
It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
Sinclair LewisRead
When friends speak overmuch of times gone by, often it's because they sense their present time is turning them from friends to strangers. Long before the moment came to say goodbye, I think, we said goodbye in other words and ways and silences. Then when the moment came for it at last, we didn't say it as should be said by friends. So now at last, dear Mouse, with many, many years between: goodbye.
Frederick BuechnerRead
A chilly breeze that seemed to emanate from the heart of the forest lifted the hair at Harry's brow. He knew that they would not tell him to go, that it would have to be his decision. "You'll stay with me?" "Until the very end," said James.
J. K. RowlingRead
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
Clifton FadimanRead
Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a violin lying ready at his hand! How I should have slipped up to him in his quiet hour, noiselessly climbing the winding stair to take him by surprise, and then with talk and music we should have held heavenly festival throughout the night!
Hermann HesseRead
Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.
Milan KunderaRead