Henry Miller Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

  Henry Miller

  Music, Beauty, Beautiful

• The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

  Henry Miller

  Hero, Men, Differences

  Henry Miller (1969). “Mémoires, Plaidoiries Et Documents”, p.167, New Directions Publishing

• Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

  Henry Miller

  Fate, Needs, Literature

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

• Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

  Henry Miller

  Order, Confusion, Understanding

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

• Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

  Henry Miller

  Life, Humility, Literature

• Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

  Henry Miller

  Music, Beautiful, Opiates

  Henry Miller (1945). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, [New York] : New directions

• The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

  Henry Miller

  Prison Life, Literature, Crime

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.341, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

  Henry Miller

  God, Voice, Imagination

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.341, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.

  Henry Miller

  Night, Mushrooms, Roots

  Henry Miller (2007). “Black Spring”, p.24, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• We live at the edge of the miraculous.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Literature, Miraculous

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.89, New Directions Publishing

• There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

  Henry Miller

  Love, Funny, Strong Women

• Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

  Henry Miller

  Faith, Believe, Miracle

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.169, New Directions Publishing

• Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

  Henry Miller

  Insane, Literature, Madness

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.180, New Directions Publishing

• Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

  Henry Miller

  Law, Miracle, Doctrine

  "Black Spring". Book by Henry Miller, 1936.

• In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

  Henry Miller

  Death, Moving, Men

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.6, New Directions Publishing

• Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made it impossible for these to become manifest. In short, they are suffering from the silent shameful conspiracy (the more shameful since it is unacknowledged) which has bound them together as enemies of art and artists.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Men, Enemy

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.57, New Directions Publishing

• The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

  Henry Miller

  Men, Forever, Humanity

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.205, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.

  Henry Miller

  Artist, Horizon, Literature

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.168, New Directions Publishing

• Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

  Henry Miller

  Damage Is Done, Joy, Why Not

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.172, New Directions Publishing

• Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

  Henry Miller

  Knowledge, Tree, Guilt

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

• The world is the mirror of myself dying.

  Henry Miller

  Death, Mirrors, Dying

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

• Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

  Henry Miller

  Power, Evil, Analysis

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.191, New Directions Publishing

• I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.

  Henry Miller

  America, Looks, Literature

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.117, New Directions Publishing

• What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

  Henry Miller

  Literature, Streets

  Henry Miller (2007). “Black Spring”, p.3, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

  Henry Miller

  Men, Literature, Limits

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.85, New Directions Publishing

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