(1891–1980)
U.S. novelist and painter“Explore unfamiliar sections—on foot if wet, on bicycle, if dry.”
more infosource: Henry Miller on Writing (New York: New Directions Publishing, 1964), 162.
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category: bicycle, exploration, walking
medium: Nonfiction
via: Brain Pickings“Did it not see me through all my times of trouble and despair?”
more infosource: description of his bicycle, “My Best Friend,” in My Bike & Other Friends (Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1978), 105–110.
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category: bicycle, despair, friendship, trouble
medium: essay
“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.”
more infosource: The Cosmological Eye (New York: New Directions Press, 1969), 154.
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category: Christ, Dante, Homer, love, merit, potential, power, Shakespeare
medium: nonfiction
Henry Miller