Henry Miller Frases famosas
Citações de vida de Henry Miller
Citações de mundo de Henry Miller
Henry Miller frases e citações
“Na Grécia a gente tem vontade de se banhar no céu.”
In Greece one has the desire to bathe in the sky.
The colossus of Maroussi - Página 159, de Henry Miller - New Directions Publishing, 1958, ISBN 0811201090, 9780811201094 - 244 páginas
Tropic of Capricorn
Trópico de Câncer
“A ciência ainda procura, o amor encontrou.”
Fonte: Revista Caras, 13 de Setembro de 2006.
“A melhor maneira de matar um artista é lhe dar tudo o que ele precisa.”
the surest way to kill an artist is to supply him with everything he needs.
The paintings of Henry Miller: paint as you like and die happy : with ... - Página 77, de Henry Miller, Noel Young - publicado por Chronicle Books, 1982, ISBN 0877012768, 9780877012764 - 143 páginas
Henry Miller: Frases em inglês
Reflections (1981)
The Rosy Crucifixion I : Sexus (1949), Chapter 14. (New York: Grove Press, c1965, p. 339)
“If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.”
The Colossus of Maroussi (1941)
“I am against revolutions because they always involve a return to the status quo.”
Henry Miller on Writing (1964)
Reflections (1981)
“Sleep, Napoleon! It was not your ideas they wanted, it was your corpse.”
Fonte: Tropic of Cancer (1934), Chapter Four
“The history of the world is the history of a privileged few.”
Sunday after the war (1944), pub. New Directions.
Reflections (1981)
“The whole damn universe has to be taken apart, brick by brick, and reconstructed.”
Henry Miller on Writing (1964)
Reflections (1981)
The Rosy Crucifixion I : Sexus (1949), Chapter 1. (New York: Grove Press, c1965, p. 17-18)
I clamored. In a frantic effort to arrive at some kind of order, some tentative working program, I would sit down quietly now and then and spend long, long hours mapping out a plan of procedure. Plans, such as architects and engineers sweat over, were never my forte. But I could always visualize my dreams in a cosmogonic pattern. Though I could never formulate a plot I could balance and weigh opposing forces, characters, situations, events, distribute them in a sort of heavenly lay-out, always with plenty of space between, always with the certitude that there is no end, only worlds within worlds ad infinitum, and that wherever one left off one had created a world, a world finite, total, complete.
The Rosy Crucifixion II : Plexus (1953)
“Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.”
"The Enormous Womb", p. 96
The Wisdom of the Heart (1941)
“It was here in Big Sur that I first learned to say 'amen.'”
Fonte: Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (1957), p. 32
“He saw the humorous aspect of everything, which is the real test of the tragic sense.”
"He" is Miller's friend George Katsimbalis, the "Colossus" of the book's title.
The Colossus of Maroussi (1941)
Fonte: Henry Miller on Writing (1964), p. 23