I stumbled upon this poem 10 maybe 12 yrs ago on the internet, I have searched high and low the last month or so for this poem again and can't find it. Reading it made me research to find out who Anais Nin was, since then I have falling in love with her work.
What I remember about this poem is that it talked about JFK jr, Princess Diana, the cast from Friends, the popular couple, watching the 1st sunset of the person's love life, surfing the net with a mouse, talking to people in England without running up $500 phone bill, etc.
Has anyone else read this poem besides me? Does anyone know of where I can find it again?
Thanks in Advance.
Jenn
I'm very curious to read some of Nin's work and understand she was also famous for her erotica, which I'm not interested in reading - my question is, which (if any), of her fiction works, don't contain 'erotica'? Would her diaries be considered partially erotica as well?
Thanks so much for reading!!
I always like seeing that Anais Nin quote etched into a ladies room mirror in the Salt Lake City Public Library. I guess it means that we're always bias to seeing things from our own eyes...how do you interpret it?
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
- Anais Nin
Do you get reminded of certain friends (Y!A or in daily life) when reading this quote?
Thanks for answering!! =)
Anyone know the title of the song from the lounge scene, before the "exhibition?"
Music is played by a brass band and there is a black woman in a white dress leading the band, but she doesn't sing for this song.
Only part of the song is played before the scene cuts and it doesn't appear to be on the soundtrack.
Constance/Constanza - meaning "Steadfast".
Mozart's wife was named Constanze. She was a fine musician in her own right, a successful business woman, and an author.
Sofia - meaning "Wisdom".
Sofia Loren is a famously beautiful Italian actress.
Zoe (pronounced "Zo-ee") - meaning "Life".
Philippa - meaning "Lover of horses".
(Nicknames Pip or Pippa.)
Ramona - meaning "Protecting hands".
Anais (a-nay-is) - a version of "Anna". http://www.behindthename.com/name/anai12s
Anais Nin was a famous writer. Anais Croze is a French singer.
Aurelia - meaning "Golden". [Latin]
Aurora - meaning "Dawn". [Latin]
Kalliope (kal-ee-OH-pee) - meaning "Beautiful voice". [Greek]
(Aurelia was the name of Julius Caesar's mother.)
Ashley, not in the original Greek.
by Anais Nin
"And the day came
when the risk to remain
tight in a bud
was more painful
than the risk it took
to blossom."
I would be interested to see your efforts.
Thank you in advance.
ma
Most people my age prefer watching Hollywood blockbusters and vapid comedies. I like foreign films and obscure character pieces. Everyone listens to popular music. I like experimental rock, classical, and jazz. Everyone has crushes on boy hearthrobs and macho men. I have crushes on middle aged Irish and British actors. Everyone goes out to get wasted at the bar. I attempt to extrapolate a pattern for a 1913 cocoon coat or else go to the library to read up on Francis Bacon or Anais Nin. I have nothing to talk about with people my age. Most of them don't talk to me. They'll ask me what I did on the weekend. I'll answer that I watched La Reine Margot and just get a blank stare. I love my little passions, but can't find anyone like me!. I'm 22 and have just graduated university
I am currently reading a used copy from the 60s of vol. 1 of the diary of Anais Nin. I've heard that a lot of things were abridged in this version, and I was wondering if after I read this, is it worth it to buy the series of unabridged diaries that I've seen online? Also, what did everyone think of it?
Anais Nin and Henry miller wrote a letter to the anonymous man who paid them to write erotica for his personal collection. They were criticizing him for wanting them to be less poetic and more pornographic. I have it in a book but I want an online copy so I can copy and paste it to a blog. I tried to google key phrases but it didn't work. Any ideas so I don't have to do it the old-fashioned way and type the whole thing?
I saw you today (6-9-08) at the financial aid counter at Chemeketa Community College. Another older gentleman was waiting for you and I noticed you leaving in a maroon state licensed car. I wanted badly to say hello but was too shy. I would like to talk with you and get to know you. Please contact me and take this chance that I am willing to take. I came across a phrase an hour after seeing you.
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." -Anais Nin
I just wish it had hit me before I saw you. Otherwise I may have spoken up.
-Jamie
I already have a book for him. It's really cool...it lists all kinds of different things a man should know how to do...everything from how to drive a stick shift to how to tie a tie. Then it gives step-by-step instructions. I love it.
He wanted a book that he can read to me out of, because I love it when he does that. so, I got him Delta of Venus by Anais Nin. For those of you who knows what it's about...it has got to be some of the most tasteful, almost beautiful (what ma I saying almost for?) erotica imaginable. I really love it. I'm sure there will be many nights spend by the fireplace reading.
Now, I was thinking about painting a cigar box I have lying around here. We write each other a lot of letters..so I thought this could be a special place to keep them. The outside would be dark blue...with a picture of a it bridge on it. Over it, would say in red letters, "across the bridge of hope.." then on the inside, "together?" Modeled after his favorite picture.
What do you think?
No, thank you. after 9 months we are still not having sex and won't be for a while.
Boyfriend birthday present ideas?
I already have a book for him. It's really cool...it lists all kinds of different things a man should know how to do...everything from how to drive a stick shift to how to tie a tie. Then it gives step-by-step instructions. I love it.
He wanted a book that he can read to me out of, because I love it when he does that. so, I got him Delta of Venus by Anais Nin. For those of you who knows what it's about...it has got to be some of the most tasteful, almost beautiful (what ma I saying almost for?) erotica imaginable. I really love it. I'm sure there will be many nights spend by the fireplace reading.
Now, I was thinking about painting a cigar box I have lying around here. We write each other a lot of letters..so I thought this could be a special place to keep them. I'd line it with fabric...and maybe put a picture of us on the inside...
What do you think of these ideas?
This is hypothetical: Would it be legal for a 10 year old girl to make vocal readings of erotic literature: Nabokov's Lolita, or Anais Nin' Short Stories, or Paul Ruditis' Rainbow Party. The literature is available, she would just read the text in her voice and sell it to whomever desired it. This would be commerce, but would she or the purchaser violate and legal restriction?
Why do people think in this day and age that an responsible adult (parent, guarandian) has to put a
tween up to anything? Erotic imagines are all about in our society --- look at TV, magazines, music. Look at the Dairy Queen commercial, where a ten - eleven year old cons a boy out of a sundae. When children are dress themselves as vamps and tarts --- it would not take a girl long to think that she could get away with this.
Look at how many girls, just using the Internet, get themselves picked up by sicko or by police agents pretending to be police agents.
There have been several reported cases where 10 - 13 years had set up group sex encounters in one another's homes --- the parents were shocked and outraged that these kids would do this. The parents did not teach them this behavior nor did the parent put them up to it.
Why do people think in this day and age that an responsible adult (parent, guarandian) has to put a tween up to anything?
Erotic imagines are all about in our society --- look at TV, magazines, music. Look at the Dairy Queen commercial, where a ten - eleven year old cons a boy out of a sundae. When children are dressing themselves as vamps and tarts --- it would not take a girl long to think that she could get away with this.
Look at how many girls, just using the Internet, get themselves picked up by sicko or by police agents pretending to be police agents.
There have been several reported cases where 10 - 13 years had set up group sex encounters in one another's homes --- the parents were shocked and outraged that these kids would do this. The parents did not teach them this behavior nor did the parent put them up to it.
editior@ --- SHOULD is the operative word in your reply, but childre are not like that these days.
I am looking for more classical or Gothic Era writers, although if there happens to be a spectacular book published in the last few years, I'd be willing to investigate.
PLEASE, don't repeat anything on this list or tell me Stephanie Meyer/Christopher Paolini/etc. I've read the Twilight books, anyways. They were eh *shrugs*.
Here's my list so far:
Goethe
Blake
Poe
Marlow
Tennyson
Lord Byron
Anais Nin
Wilde
Keats
Morliere
Hawthorne
Dickenson
Brontee
A. Rice
Bram Stoker
Mary Shelley
Melissa Marr
Storm Constantine
Ellen Schreiber
Chaucer
Falkner
Any names or specific books you can add would be spectacular! =)
I love her books and was wondering if anyone could give me a complete list of all her works including all the volumes of her diaries. Thanks. Oh and does anyone know where I could order them all online?
I just wanted a list before I started purchasing them so I wouldn't miss any.
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - This line is by Anais Nin. Well, why do you think this line have stood the test of time? Please answer. thanks.
i'm looking for a new book to read. i have a really diverse taste in literature. some of my favorite books are:
-i know this much is true, by wally lamb
-a portrait in sepia, by isabel allende
-the drowning tree, by carol goodman
-rain of gold, by victor villasenor
-the great gatsby, by f. scott fitzgerald
-under a glass bell, by anais nin
-she's come undone, by wally lamb
this quote is true?
"Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic."
Anais Nin
i mean anxiety as in "smothering" a man or a woman in a relationship b/c you fear losing him or her...
Anais Nin has a lot of great quotes...google her! she was way ahead of the time she lived in. love her!
i havent read any of her works but i've readed some of her quoted work and she has blown me away. any reccommendations on what i should read from her ?
"One discovers that destiny can be directed, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made in childhood. One need not to be branded by the first pattern.
Once the deforming mirror is smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness; there is a possibility of joy"
That was written by Anais Nin.
Reading that gives me hope, which is joy in itself.
Learning to be true to my "true" self that doesnt focus on fear,doubts and worries encourages me to open my mind.
Love to hear your thoughts and thanks in advance.
Thanks Awry for that suggestion, I will take you up on that.
"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
Do you follow your dreams?
I'm reading Anais Nin's, "Henry and June," It's ok so far.
So far, it seems as if Anais is torn about what she really wants out of life. Does she want the romantic/comfortable side with Hugo her husband. Or does she want more adventure with the realtionship she develpoes with Henry and June. Or maybe she just wants it all... Unrealistic to me.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
-Anais Nin
Thank you my friends for opening up a beautiful new world..
((((HUG))))
Namaste
Peace and Love
wgm789
Stop learning
She ran around with Henry Miller in 1930s Paris. She wrote timeless erotica through her diary. The movie Henry and June was based on her. Her words seem to jump off the page and infiltrate the senses!
Birth February 21, 1903
Hi,
I was looking for some good books to read that are similar in theme (ie romance) to one or more of the following books/authors (especially the last one):
1. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller and other Miller books
2. Portnoy's complaint by Phillip Roth and other Roth books
3. Herzog by Saul Bellow
4. Disgrace by JM Coetzee
5. Money by Martin Amis
6. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
7 Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence
8. Mambo Kings play songs of love by Oscar Hijuelos
All of these books/authors have garnered awards like the Pulitzer/Nobel Prize or are on lists like the TIME 100 list or are otherwise famous. I'm specifically looking for books that have gotten such honors, not trash like Anais Nin. Except for the first two, I do not know if the other authors' books have similar themes, so please let me know.
Many thanks in advance.
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A. Powell Davies:
Life is just a chance to grow a soul.
Abraham Lincoln:
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Albert Einstein:
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
Albert Einstein:
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Alice Walker:
Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.
Amelia Burr:
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
Anais Nin:
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Anais Nin:
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
Anais Nin:
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Benjamin Franklin:
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that the stuff life is made of.
Buddha:
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard:
Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived.
Chinese proverb:
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
Colette:
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
Corita Kent:
Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.
Dorothy Thompson:
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
Elbert Hubbard:
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Emily Dickinson:
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain.
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson:
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Franklin P. Jones:
Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Frederick Buechner:
The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.
Friedrich Nietzsche:
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Henry James:
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Henry Van Dyke:
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
Isadora Duncan:
People do not live nowadays - they get about ten percent out of life.
James F. Bymes:
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death
John Lennon:
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Leo Buscaglia:
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Marie Curie:
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Mark Twain:
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mary Oliver:
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Matthew Arnold:
Is it so small a thing
To have enjoy'd the sun,
To have lived light in the spring,
To have loved, to have thought, to have done...
Mohandas K. Gandhi:
Where there is love there is life.
Courage is often awarded with medals, plaques, and fame, but some people think the rewards of courage are more personal. As Anais Nin wrote in The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 3, 1939-1944, "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
Assignment: Does a person's courage reward him or her with a fuller life? Write an essay in which you defend your opinion on this topic. Support your viewpoint with examples and evidence from your education, reading, and personal experience. Please Help?!!?!??!?!?!
And do respect the women of the world; remember you all had mothers. ~Allen Toussaint
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. ~Anais Nin
That most sensitive, most delicate of instruments: the mind of a little child. ~Henry Handel Richardson
Each child is an adventure into a better life, an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new. ~Hubert H. Humphrey
What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient. ~Bodie Thoene
Once you bring life into this world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world. ~Elie Weisel
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
-Anais Nin
Namaste
Peace and Love
A little about Anais Nin:
From being a cult figure of the early feminist movement, Anais later rose to international prominence with her writing. She is best known for her diaries but also produced a number of novels and a prose poem in surrealistic style as well as wonderful erotic short stories, published posthumously. Characterized by the use of powerful and, at times, disquieting imagery, her work reveals great sensitivity and perception.
In 1973 she received an honorary doctorate from Philadelphia College of Art. She was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1974.
faf?
I take that to mean "face all fear"
Couldn't agree more.
An acronyn for fear:
F*** Everything And Run
That you think you'll explode?
Maybe it's just that it's such a beautiful day.
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." ~ Albert Einstein
"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery." ~ Anais Nin
"People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child--our own two eyes. All is a miracle." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Think I'll go hug a tree. :-)
Wild and Free: "I don't think anyone who has answered so far has any idea about what you are talking."
With respect, I think they do. You call it God's love, and I respect that, but god-believers are not the only ones who experience this wonderful, transcendent, exhilarating all-encompassing feeling of universal good will and jubilation.
Hermey Agonistes: If I feel myself about to explode, I'll be sure to take off my armor. :-)
Hi. I'm interested in these authors, and would like to read at least one book by each of them this summer.
My question is: Which book (S) is/are the best of each of them? Which book would you recommend as a good intro. to each author? Why?
Thanks.
I've recently developed an interest in her work --not her novels as much as her diaries. But there are so many! I suppose I should begin with her most earlier diaries, but does anyone else have any other ideas? If you know her work well, what would you recommend? Is there any one work I should start with?
After cleaning out my room this week I stumbled upon some books by Anais Nin I hadn't seen in ages. I first started reading her material during junior high while browsing the bookstore. That was over ten years ago. I'm interested to hear if you have an opinion of her work.
Which other writers do you prefer over Anais Nin?
"...and the time came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud became harder than the risk it took to bloom." --Anais Nin, author
It is one of my favorite quotes for my own personal reasons in regards to change, and how living my life to conform to society was harder in the end than the fear which I had to overcome to live my life the way I wanted to for myself (I'm a transsexual). Just curious as to know what this quote says to everyone else.
