A Quote by Anais Nin

The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.

Anais Nin

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Anais Nin
American - Novelist
February 21, 1903 - January 14, 1977

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

Ella Maillart

A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest Africa, that part of yourself that will never be tamed.

Stanley Kunitz

It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born

Beatrix Potter

Throughout my life, I've been gratified that I've been able to keep the child in me alive and inspire others.

Jonathan Winters

The only way to love a person is...by listening to them and seeing and believing in the god, in the poet, in them. For by doing this, you keep the god and the poet alive and make it flourish.

Brenda Ueland

Painting and photography keep the creative channel open, and for an actor, it's to keep alive, it's to keep awake, it's to keep watching, it's to keep feeling, it's to keep enjoying, to keep that sensuality of feeling alive.

Charlotte Rampling

A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him.

Stanley Kunitz

I felt him there with me. The real David. My David. David, you are still here. Alive. Alive in me.Alive in the galaxy.Alive in the stars.Alive in the sky.Alive in the sea.Alive in the palm trees.Alive in feathers.Alive in birds.Alive in the mountains.Alive in the coyotes.Alive in books.Alive in sound.Alive in mom.Alive in dad.Alive in Bobby.Alive in me.Alive in soil.Alive in branches.Alive in fossils.Alive in tongues.Alive in eyes.Alive in cries.Alive in bodies.Alive in past, present and future. Alive forever.

Kelly Easton

The air we breathe is necessary to keep us alive, but we must continually breathe it out so we can breathe fresh air back into our lungs. God gives us his love, which we can keep in action by breathing it out to others, thus making room in our hearts for a fresh supply of love.

John Templeton

For some reason or other there was in me the desire to see the world clean and fresh and alive, as primitive things are clean and fresh and alive. The so-called documentary picture left me wanting something.

Aaron Siskind

I too was naughty as a child & played pranks. The child within us has to be kept alive because that child keeps us alive.

Narendra Modi

Keep the child within alive. A child never tires of hearing the birds sing, never gets bored looking at flowers.

Mata Amritanandamayi

You've got to keep the child alive; you can't create without it.

Joni Mitchell

My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.

Natasha Trethewey

If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.

Donald Hall

A vision from God will motivate you. A vision for God will keep you on track. A vision from God will keep you moving and motivate you to press on to the mark of the high calling of God. This is why we need to have a vision. God's provision is directly linked to your expectation.

Todd Bentley

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