(1891–1980)
U.S. novelist and painter
Henry Miller
I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul.
Henry Miller on Writing (New York: New Directions, 1964), 86.
Explore unfamiliar sections—on foot if wet, on bicycle, if dry.
Henry Miller on Writing (New York: New Directions Publishing, 1964), 162.
Every day that we fail to live out the maximum of our potentialities we kill the Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, Christ which is in us. Every day that we live in harness with the woman whom we no longer love we destroy our power to love and to have the woman whom we merit.
The Cosmological Eye (New York: New Directions Press, 1969), 154.