Henry Miller Quotation

[oneirophage]

"Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heart-ache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes

Comments

[pruneduchess]

I pulled that out of the book when I read it too, I have it written in a few places - every day we slaughter our finest impulses.

[the101dmnations]

Hallelujah! I love this. Thanks.