Writing for Your Life Quotes

“What must I say? What must I say? What must I say? What must I say? And finally, What must I say to you?”
― Deena Metzger, Writing for Your Life: A Guide and Companion to the Inner Worlds

“Some languages, unlike the Indo-European ones, do not separate subject and verb so that an action is never seen as distinct from the actor.”
― Deena Metzger, Writing for Your Life: A Guide and Companion to the Inner Worlds

“If the journal is the jumble of raw material—blood, bones, sinews—and a poem is the cell, the impulse, the story is the entire animal.”
― Deena Metzger, Writing for Your Life: A Guide and Companion to the Inner Worlds

“Languages are as distinct as people, and they put their stamp on us.”
― Deena Metzger, Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Journey – A Dynamic Practice for Healing Body, Mind, and Spirit

“Soon creativity and self-knowledge will seem like twin sisters, similar but distinct comrades who have a common origin.”
― Deena Metzger, Writing for Your Life: A Guide and Companion to the Inner Worlds

“When we feel fear, we shrink away, but when we’re excited we go toward. Let’s go toward. Let’s go farther. Let’s invite the creative into ourselves.”
― Deena Metzger, Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Journey – A Dynamic Practice for Healing Body, Mind, and Spirit

“Sometimes fear cannot be distinguised from excitement.”
― Deena Metzger, Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Journey – A Dynamic Practice for Healing Body, Mind, and Spirit