The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
Anais NinRead
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the pursuit of dreams and the fleeting moments of fulfillment in that chase.
Anais Nin's quote captures the essence of striving toward one's dreams, emphasizing that the journey itself is miraculous. The 'dream' symbolizes aspirations that often seem just out of reach, and the act of catching up signifies moments of alignment with those aspirations, highlighting the beauty found in the pursuit, even if the dream itself remains elusive.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech to inspire people to chase their dreams.
The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.
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.
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.
We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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.
I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible.
Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travellin' through the pastures of the sky
she told me she'd be a phoenix." The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. "They don't really exist." "She said that depends on whether or not there's someone who can see them.
Give light, and people will find the way...
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.
You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.
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