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
To be willing to live within the imagination is to commit oneself to the gathering together of the pieces that might begin to form a self. To avoid this territory is to avoid the encounters that might validate, inform, or… — 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
