Alchemy Quote by Anais Nin Download Open image “Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.” — Anais Nin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alchemy Gold Materials Ordinary Poetry Poetry is Teach
Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied. — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no true Aurum… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels. — Thomas Nashe Copy Share Image
There's a great deal of poetry in working out how things work, cutting bits of metal, trying to mend stuff. — James May Copy Share Image
Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Take your materials from what is around you - if you see a dandelion, write about that; if it's misty, write about the mist.… — Masaoka Shiki Copy Share Image
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory. — Dennis Gabor Copy Share Image
I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
“…For love it is never the same. What goes on inside is never the same just like this music which changes every instant. For… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening, spreading not… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Laughter and tears are not separate experiences, with intervals of rest: they rush out together and it is like walking with a sword between… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“You must learn to bend to open windows, my friend. That is why artists and dancers are closest to God. They clench their chests… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Every human being has gone through a tragedy of sorts. And the idea is that you have two paths you can take, you can… — Jillian Michaels Copy Share Image
Everybody can close their eyes, picture a dream house or a perfect place [where] they'd like to have a picnic. But actually creating it… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Arya Maloney updates the basis and practice of transpersonal psychology by using the spiritual principles of India's masters and the transformational alchemy inherent in… — Arnold Mindell Copy Share Image
“To follow our bliss and dive deeply into the mysteries of fragrance, color, and taste; blend with the magnificent diversity of mother nature; and… — Prana Gogia Copy Share Image
I want to explain the new alchemy [in the "From Earth, Air, Fire, and Water to a New Vision of Mind and Time"], which… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
We swung over the hills and over the town and back again, and I saw how a man can be master of a craft,… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
We find that alchemy has to do with magicians or magic and may even have roots in the Chaldean people who lived in the… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
“He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has no talent… — Curtis Ackie Copy Share Image
