“This was the sort of ebullience and élan I prayed for when I felt the desire to write. I used to sit… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The creative life! Ascension. Passing beyond oneself. Rocketing out into the blue, grasping at flying ladders, mounting, soaring, lifting the world up… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Part of the act of creating is in discovering your own kind. They are everywhere. But don't look for them in the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The creative artist has something in common with the hero. Though functioning on another plane, he too believes that he has solutions… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow is no hazardous affair, a day like any other day: tomorrow is the result of many yesterdays and comes with a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I reached out for something to attach myself to—and I found nothing. But in reaching out, in the effort to grasp, to attach myself,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“(...)I decided to let myself drift with the tide, to make not the least resistance to fate, no matter in what form it presented… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“If it be knowledge or wisdom one is seeking, then one had better go direct to the source. And the source is not the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“In the egocentric prism the helpless victim is walled in by the very light which he refracts. The ego dies in its own glass… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“When one spends what he has on himself, when one has a thoroughly good time with his own money, people are apt to say… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be running like… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“And no one sets about saving the world unless he has first experienced the miracle of personal salvation.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“He looks about the room at the few sticks of furniture, at the dirty bed sheets and the wash basin with the dirty water… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
