Delta of Venus

The erotic stories compiled in Delta of Venus:Erotica were originally written by Anais Nin for a private collector in the 1940s. Later, she decided to release the compilation for publication. The works, however, were not published until after her death. At the beginning of Delta of Venus there is a preface that consists of pages from Anais Nin’s diary that provide the reader with background information regarding the contents of the text and attest to her intentions for their publication.

(her stuff is mad dope)

Anais Nin

"The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle." — Anais Nin

I swim in the sky; I float

“Oh, God, I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love. I swim in the sky; I float; my body is full of flowers, flowers with fingers giving me acute, acute caresses, sparks, jewels, quivers of joy, dizziness, such dizziness. Music inside of one, drunkenness. Only closing the eyes and remembering, and the hunger, the hunger for more, more, the great hunger, the voracious hunger, and thirst.”

Anais Nin



Diary entry dated May 30, 1934