Quote

Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.

Anais Nin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Anais Nin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1903
Born: February 21
Died: 1977
Died: January 14
Author
Autobiographer
Diarist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Neuilly
Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell
Anais Nin
Experiences
Scientist
Poet
Knowledge
Universe
Living
Marvels
Science
Unison
Work
Discovered

More quotes by Anais Nin

Image
Ordinary life does not interest me.
Anais Nin
Image
Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky
Anais Nin
Image
I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously.
Anais Nin
Image
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
Anais Nin
Image
When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.
Anais Nin
Image
Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.
Anais Nin
Image
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
Anais Nin
Image
If you can't create, you destroy.
Anais Nin
Image
I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.
Anais Nin
Image
All unlived emotions turn to inanity.
Anais Nin
Image
People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying.
Anais Nin
Image
I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.
Anais Nin
Image
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
Anais Nin
Image
Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots.
Anais Nin
Image
New York has an electronic heart.
Anais Nin
Image
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
Anais Nin
Image
We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
Anais Nin
Image
it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
Anais Nin
Image
The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.
Anais Nin
Image
All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.
Anais Nin