The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
Anais NinRead
I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the power of choice in focusing on what we love, allowing for deep personal engagement.
Anais Nin's quote highlights the importance of making deliberate choices in our lives. By electing to focus on and immerse ourselves in something we love, we can cultivate a sense of fulfillment and joy. This act of choosing to engage deeply fosters a connection to our passions and can lead to a more enriching and meaningful existence.
Themes
ChoiceLovePassionEngagementFulfillment
In practice
Example use cases
This quote is perfect for a motivational speech about pursuing one's passions.
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 hard to believe when Iβm with you that there can be anything as still as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it in the warm New York 4 oβclock light we are drifting back and forth between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles
Frank O'HaraRead
Through this same man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain.
Thomas MaloryRead
Because your eyes are slant and slow, Because your hair is sweet to touch, My heart is high again; but oh, I doubt if this will get me much.
Dorothy ParkerRead
He turned away; he threw himself on his face on the sofa. 'Oh, Jane! my hope - my love - my life!' broke in anguish from his lips.
Charlotte BronteRead
Thou saw'st the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave; true to each other, when heaven seemed false to them.
Herman MelvilleRead
Faith transforms the whole person precisely to the extent that he or she becomes open to love.
Pope FrancisRead