90 quotes
Everything remains unsettled forever, depend on it.
Henry Miller on Writing (1964)
The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
The Rosy Crucifixion II: Plexus (1953)
Through light and joy is the world opened up, revealed for what it is: ineffable beauty, unending creation.
The whole damned universe has to be taken apart, brick by brick, and reconstructed.
Henry Miller on Writing (1964)
There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books.
Tropic of Cancer (1934)
The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (1957)
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
Tropic of Capricorn (1939)
The artist who becomes thoroughly aware consequently ceases to be one.
Henry Miller on Writing (1964)
The moment one give close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnified world in itself.
There ain't no such thing as civilization.
The Colossus of Maroussi (1941)
We shall have no need for art or religion because we shall be in ourselves a work of art.
The Wisdom of the Heart (1941)
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
Tropic of Cancer (1934)
The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is, different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (1945)
I venerate van Gogh. He was a remarkable human being, a man who knew about love. His work reflects a spirit filled with light, even though his life was a tragedy in many ways.
Reflections (1981)
Perhaps the artist is nothing more than the personification of this universal maladjustment, this universal disequilibrium.
Henry Miller on Writing (1964)
One only begins to comprehend when one begins to stop trying to know.
An Open Letter to Surrealists Everywhere (1939)
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. ... The other eight are unimportant.
The Rosy Crucifixion I: Sexus (1949)
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
The Rosy Crucifixion I: Sexus (1949)