Quotes About Freedom

I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.

How can I accept a limited definable self when I feel, in me, all possibilities?... I never feel the four walls around the substance of the self, the core. I feel only space. Illimitable space.

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rather than to debauchery.

I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife.

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death

Please understand I am in full rebellion against my own mind, that when I live, I live by impulse, by emotion, by white heat.

I am like a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.

You know I've always wanted to break the molds which life forms around one if one lets them. -Why? -I want to trespass boundaries, erase all identifications, anything which fixes one permanently into one mold, one place, without hope of change.

The love of only one man or one woman is an enclosure.

Djuna had wanted a life of desire and freedom, not luxury but beauty, not security but fulfillment, not perfection but a perfect moment like this one...

the cape held within its folds something of what she imagined was a quality possessed exclusively by man: some dash, some audacity, some swagger of freedom denied to woman

No woman has ever granted me all the privileges I need—and you, why you sing out so blithely, so boldly, with a laugh even—yes, you invite me to go ahead, be myself, venture anything. I adore you for that. That is where you are truly regal, a woman extraordinary.

You have broken down all formal order, grooves, more than anyone I know outside of Dostoevsky's books.

His theatre was the clouds, where no spectacle repeated itself. On land he was a foreigner. Land for him was stasis, and it pulled him into immobility, which was his image of death." —

Ali Baba protects the lovers! Gives them the luck of bandits, and no guilt, for love fills certain people and expands them beyond all laws; there is no time, no place for regrets, hesitations, cowardices. Love runs free and reckless, and all the gentle trickeries perpetrated to protect others from its burns-those who are not the lovers but who might be the victims of this love's expansion.

Now that I have been truthful I am no longer anxious. Anaïs

You had to account for every move, arrival or exit. In the world there was a conspiracy against improvisation. It was only permitted in jazz.

To escape him she had run away to the end of the world. To be free of him she had run away to places where he never went.

I am most deeply concerned over a trend toward conformity, a growth of anti-intellectualism, which manifests itself in a sneering attitude toward education, science, and the arts. The tendency is to stifle mental freedom, which is the very basis of a democracy's life and growth.

It was as if in captivity, her brilliant plumage were losing its brilliance. She felt the metamorphosis. She knew she was moulting.

Cuando uno se hace pasar por las revueltas de cuerpo entero.

Touched bottom again. Decided to liberate myself... We are never trapped unless we choose to be.