Poetry Quotes by Henry Miller

The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.

— Henry Miller

If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch.

— Henry Miller

We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what…

— Henry Miller

The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work…

— Henry Miller

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they…

— Henry Miller

On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and…

— Henry Miller

I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection.

— Henry Miller

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. In this state…

— Henry Miller

“We live entirely in the past, nourished by dead thoughts, dead creeds, dead sciences. And it is the past which is engulfing…

— Henry Miller

The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a…

— Henry Miller

Words, sentences, ideas, no matter how subtle or ingenious, the maddest flights of poetry, the most profound dreams, the most hallucinating visions,…

— Henry Miller

“Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting…

— Henry Miller

“the flight which the poet makes over the face of the earth and then, as if he had been ordained to re-enact…

— Henry Miller

“The creative artist has something in common with the hero. Though functioning on another plane, he too believes that he has solutions…

— Henry Miller

“On the meridian of time there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and…

— Henry Miller

“This is the lone-American type I admire, the kind I believe in, can get along with, and whom I vote for even…

— Henry Miller

“Conditioned to ecstasy, the poet is like a gorgeous unknown bird mired in the ashes of thought. If he succeeds in freeing…

— Henry Miller