I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.
Interpretation
The quote reflects the transformative power of love and art, turning the human experience into metaphors of beauty.
In this quote, the author expresses the idea of using art to reinterpret and elevate the human experience, particularly in relation to love. By invoking imagery like 'roses and stars,' the speaker suggests that through artistic expression, even the most intimate and vulnerable aspects of humanity can become beautiful and transcendent metaphors, illustrating the deep connection between love and artistry.
In practice
Use this quote in a speech about the importance of art in understanding human emotions.
Perception plays a vital role in the diagnosis of bipolar illness. Symptoms are perceived through the categories of psychiatric medicine at a given moment in history, categories which are continually shifting and being named or renamed.
Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.
All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.
I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by an envelope that you have to rip open in order to get at. I want there to be a waiting time -a pause between the writing and the reading. I want us to be careful about what we say to each other. I want the miles between us to be real and long. This will be our law -that we write our dailiness and our suffering very, very carefully.
under our love making I felt a bleakness that couldnt be dispelled. The sadness was in both of us, and I think we pitied ourselves that night, as if we were other people looking down on the couple who lay together on the bed
People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other.
In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.
I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.
There is this looking at the world as shapes and patterns and colors that have meaning, and you can't deny the superficial because the superficial is what meets the eye.
I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted.
I personally made a decision many years ago that I wanted to crawl into portraiture because it had a lot of latitude.
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
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