Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don’t validate. Indulge what you don’t like. Wallow…

- Deena Metzger

For those who do not wish to step away from consensus, the creative is useless at best; at worst, it is dangerous.

- Deena Metzger

For those who are intrigued by the multiplicity of reality and the unique possibilities of their own vision, the creative is the path they must pursu…

- Deena Metzger

Stories move in circle. They don’t move in straight lines. So it helps if you listen in circles. There are stories inside stories and stories betw…

- Deena Metzger

When Stories nestle in the body, soul comes forth.

- Deena Metzger

We want to be God in all the ways that are not the ways of God, in what we hope is indestructible or unmoving. But God is the most fragile, a bare sm…

- Deena Metzger

Without compassion, we will never know anyone or anything, not even our own story. Too much judgment, too many ideas and attitudes will stand in the …

- Deena Metzger

There are mythic patterns under all of our lives. Each one of us, often unbeknownst to ourselves, is engaged in a drama of soul that is not reserved …

- Deena Metzger

Creating art and creating ourselves are the same act; art, world, ourselves - these are continuous with one another.

- Deena Metzger