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 between stories and finding your way through them is as easy and as hard as… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
One cannot really know an other without intimacy. Detached, objective observations alone leave a surface upon which it is too easy to project one's own image or fantasies. In intimacy, one respectfully interacts with the other, invites the penetration of… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We want to be God in all the ways that are not the ways of God, in what we hope is indestructible or unmoving.… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
Some people fear seeing or feeling anything about which there is no general agreement. For others, it is thrilling to be aware of innuendo,… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
“There are those who try to set Fire to the world We are in danger There is only time to move slowly There is… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
The world of public discourse - political, social, diplomatic, commercial - has so corrupted language that we are rightly more suspicious of the meaning… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
Stories heal us because we become whole through them. In the process of writing, of discovering our story, we restore those parts of ourselves… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
“What must I say? What must I say? What must I say? What must I say? And finally, What must I say to you?” — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
Creating art and creating ourselves are the same act; art, world, ourselves - these are continuous with one another. — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
A sacred illness is one that educates us and alters us from the inside out, provides experiences and therefore knowledge that we could not… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
