Anais Nin
Anais Nin
Anaïs Ninwas an essayist and memoirist born to Cuban parents in France, where she was also raised. She spent some time in Spain and Cuba but lived most of her life in the United States where she became an established author. She wrote journals, novels, critical studies, essays, short stories, and erotica. A great deal of her work, including Delta of Venus and Little Birds, was published posthumously...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 February 1903
CityNanterre, France
CountryUnited States of America
Poetry, which is our relation to the senses, enables us to retain a living relationship to all things. It is the quickest means of transportation to reach dimensions above or beyond the traps set by the so-called realists. It is a way to learn levitation and travel in liberated continents, to travel by moonlight as well as sunlight.
Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.
the pearl-grey city, the opal that is Paris ...
[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.
There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like.
If you can't create, you destroy.
To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard
The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer.
Most artists have retired too absolutely; they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents.
I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love.
He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. . . . For him the only danger came from the microbes that attacked the body. He had not studied the microbe of conscience which eats into the soul.
I spell 'god' with a small 'g' because I do not believe in him, but I love to swear by him.
Perfection is static, And I am in full progress.
I never liked the language of Henry Miller. I don't think pornography has added to our sensual life.