Poetry Quotes by Anais Nin

Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.

— Anais Nin

Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.

— Anais Nin

The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.

— Anais Nin

You are the poet, you walk inside my dreams...

— Anais Nin

To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.

— Anais Nin

I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations…

— Anais Nin

Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the…

— Anais Nin

We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry…

— Anais Nin

“By the end of the evening I was like a man, terribly in love with her face and body, which promised so…

— Anaïs Nin

“At night too, she puzzled the mystery of her desperate need of kindness. As other girls prayed for handsomeness in a lover,…

— Anaïs Nin

Poetry, which is our relation to the senses, enables us to retain a living relationship to all things. It is the quickest…

— Anais Nin

“How to live as divided cells — voilà! Something always eludes the scientists, the poets, the stargazers, the biologists, the anthropologists. Something…

— Anaïs Nin

Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as…

— Anais Nin

“A voice that had traversed the centuries, so heavy it broke what it touched, so heavy I feared it would ring in…

— Anaïs Nin

That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life…

— Anais Nin

I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had…

— Anais Nin

I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream,…

— Anais Nin

At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my…

— Anais Nin

“I was sure the old man knew nothing about the beatitudes, ecstasies, dazzling reverberations of sexual encounters. Cut out the poetry was…

— Anaïs Nin

“When does real love begin? At first it was a fire, eclipses, short circuits, lightning and fireworks; the incense, hammocks, drugs, wines,…

— Anaïs Nin

“Why is that I never get cut off from pity, sympathy, participation, in spite of the fact that I am living out…

— Anaïs Nin

“I'm in love with New York. It matches my mood. I'm not overwhelmed. It is the suitable scene for my ever ever…

— Anaïs Nin