Bridges Quote by Deena Metzger

Eighty percent of language lies to us.

— Deena Metzger

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

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

It's what we do for each other that heals.

— Deena Metzger

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

“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

The world of public discourse - political, social, diplomatic, commercial - has so corrupted language that we are rightly more suspicious of the meaning…

— Deena Metzger

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

“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

The gods come to us in the forms we recognize.

— Deena Metzger

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

— Deena Metzger

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