The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work of art.
Henry Miller'Life', said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine.
Henry MillerIt is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
Henry MillerWhat does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
Henry MillerTo have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a miracle.
Henry MillerA man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.
Henry Miller