Henry Miller
Henry Miller
Henry Valentine Millerwas an American writer. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms, developing a new sort of semi-autobiographical novel that blended character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, explicit language, sex, surrealist free association and mysticism. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, Tropic of Capricornand The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy, all of which are based on his experiences in New York and Paris, and all of which were banned in the United...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAutobiographer
Date of Birth26 December 1891
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.
All my Calvaries were rosy crucifixions, pseudo-tragedies to keep the fires of hell burning brightly for the real sinners who are in danger of being forgotten.
No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.
I don't know whether you've ever had a woman eat an apple while you were doing it. Well, you can imagine how that affects you.
The sordid qualities imputed to the enemy are always those which we recognize as our own and therefore rise to slay, because only through projection do we realize the enormity and horror of them.
To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold.
The piano bar is the gateway to the halls of masturbation.
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.
The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable.
Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that's all.
There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books
We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Lose yourself in it, and you are free.
All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet.
It was only in my forties that I started feeling young.