Expressing feelings is linked directly with creation... In this ability to tap the sources of feeling and imagination lies the secret of abundance. Anais Nin More Quotes by Anais Nin More Quotes From Anais Nin I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama. Anais Nin real drama profound Paris-New York, the two high tension magnetic poles between life, life of the senses, of the spirit in Paris, and life in action in New York. Anais Nin paris new-york two New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm. Anais Nin jazz cities new-york In New York the acoustics are good for laughter, for life is all external, all action, no thought, no meditation, no dreaming, no reflection, only the exuberance of action. Anais Nin laughter new-york dream Tropical nights are hammocks for lovers. Anais Nin hammocks lovers night There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time. Anais Nin neurosis suffering doe When I stand at the top of the Champs-Elysées, with its chestnut trees in flower, its undulations of shining cars, its white spaciousness, I feel as if I were biting into a utopian fruit, something velvety and lustrous and rich and vivid. Anais Nin paris flower white [On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately. Anais Nin paris cities giving She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the disorders of strewn clothes, spilled cigarette ashes, slipping into bed all dressed, falling asleep thus, indolence, timelessness...A region of chaos and moonlight. She liked it there. Anais Nin clothes bed fall Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold. Anais Nin alchemy gold ordinary We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics. Anais Nin cures politics evil All the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution. Anais Nin analysis evolution art In every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict. Anais Nin accusation scene trials New York has an electronic heart. Anais Nin new-york heart You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination. Anais Nin my-imagination demand imagination jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force. Anais Nin music expression self But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and which will ultimately be transmitted to others. Anais Nin empowering artist inspiring I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and remember the first woman they idolized, the woman they could never have. The woman who aroused them romantically holds them. Anais Nin beautiful men firsts Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires. Anais Nin creative doe desire The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive. You do not preserve them in alcohol until the moment you are ready to write about them. Anais Nin alcohol live-in-the-moment writing
