Henry Miller on Writing (1964)
“Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.”
“The imagination is an eye where images remain forever.”
“So we remain, forever more,
Immortal and Found.”
from the poem, This Child Desires Spring http://www.masielalushafoundation.org/board.php
“Everything depends on upbringing.”
Variant: Everything intelligent is so boring.
Source: War and Peace
“Everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever.”
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 130.
Context: Don't think about what you've left behind, the alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride across the sands of the desert. "Everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever."
“Everything depends on how something is said.”
Source: Aesthetics and Hermeneutics (1964), p. 102 http://books.google.com/books?id=7RP-TggufEEC&pg=PA102
Context: The language of art is constituted precisely by the fact that it speaks to the self-understanding of every person, and it does this as ever present and by means of its own contemporaneousness. Indeed, precisely the contemporaneousness of the work allows it to come to expression in language. Everything depends on how something is said.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
