Anais Nin Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.

  Anais Nin

  Art, Asia, Language

• We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

  Anais Nin

  Feelings, Musical, Sound

  The Diary of Anaïs Nin, February 1932.

• I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's language was so inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored.

  Anais Nin

  Sex, Men, Feelings

  Anais Nin (1977). “DELTA OF VENUS EROTICA”

• At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis, science, and learning Henry’s language, entering Henry’s world. I wanted to destroy by violence and animalism my tenuous fantasies and illusions and my hypersensitivity. A kind of suicide. The ignominy awakened me. Then June came and answered the cravings of my imagination and saved me. Or perhaps she killed me, for now I am started on a course of madness.

  Anais Nin

  Suicide, June, Imagination

• The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing today which is called fiction contains such a poverty of language, such triteness, that it is a shrunken, diminished world we enter, poorer and more formless than the poorest cripple deprived of ears and eyes and tongue. The writer's responsibility is to increase, develop our senses, expand our vision, heighten our awareness and enrich our articulateness.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Eye, Responsibility

  "Moving to Antarctica : An Anthology of Women's Writing". Book by Margaret Kaminski, 1975.

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