Home » Quote » Anaïs Nin » „The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.“ „The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.“ — Anaïs Nin Related quotes „The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.”(Analects 2.11)“ — Confucius „Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.“ — Joseph Campbell „it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.“ — Mary Oliver „No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.“ — W. H. Auden „One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.“ — Friedrich Nietzsche „Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives in him; to this poet she threw an unexpected ladder in the middle of the city and ordained, 'Climb!“ — Anaïs Nin