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Wisdom of the Heart
by
Henry Miller
This selection of stories and essays shows again the wide range of mood, style and subject matter which Henry Miller's work commands. Expressing himself with exhilarating candor and freedom, writing 'from the heart' with a refreshing lack of reticence, Miller involves the reader directly in his thoughts and feelings.
Paperback, 260 pages
Published
January 1st 1942
by New Directions Publishing Corporation
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Henry Miller often provokes many emotions in people. Depending on the book or books that they have read. I've always loved his collection of essays, "Stand Still Like the Hummingbird". So, I couldn't wait to finally get my hands on a copy of this book, "Wisdom of the Heart".
The first three essays in the book were quite good and got me hooked. Essentially they were about his philosophy that you must lose something of yourself to find something. To embrace the pain to find the pleasure. Right on t...more
The first three essays in the book were quite good and got me hooked. Essentially they were about his philosophy that you must lose something of yourself to find something. To embrace the pain to find the pleasure. Right on t...more
Miller's essay on CREATIVE DEATH should be enough to own this book, but each essay in this collection is a jewel in the rough... and without Miller's rough Brooklyn accent our understanding (or entrance into) the mysteries would be sorely lacking.
Miller becomes mythic in these essays. His voice carries intimations of Whitman and Emersonian thought. He digs deep into the poets, the philosophers, and the psychologists— even into the spiritual thinkers such as Krishnamurti. He also tackles the Holy...more
Miller becomes mythic in these essays. His voice carries intimations of Whitman and Emersonian thought. He digs deep into the poets, the philosophers, and the psychologists— even into the spiritual thinkers such as Krishnamurti. He also tackles the Holy...more
I feel a connection to this writing, whether it is the Tropics, or simply essays. I identify with the lewd, the obscene, and the gentle rages of the heart. I think it was the first book I ever loaned out that didn't return because it was so good.
Oct 05, 2008
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Wisdom of the Heart - Henry Miller
A collection of essays and some short fiction. Really enjoyed this. Again like Miller in general you will find this dry if your not into this sort of thing. Found the short fiction, The Alcoholic Veteran with the Washboard Cranium and the pieces on Balzac's Seraphita and Louis Lambert really interesting.
I love Seraphita, it is so much of a change (and strange) for Balzac, and Miller's thoughts are very helpful. Randomly i reflected back on two other strange and...more
A collection of essays and some short fiction. Really enjoyed this. Again like Miller in general you will find this dry if your not into this sort of thing. Found the short fiction, The Alcoholic Veteran with the Washboard Cranium and the pieces on Balzac's Seraphita and Louis Lambert really interesting.
I love Seraphita, it is so much of a change (and strange) for Balzac, and Miller's thoughts are very helpful. Randomly i reflected back on two other strange and...more
Miller writes with such profound insight, it transcends the suffering he undertook to get there.
Spent a whole semester savoring these and writing on them.
this is my favorite book! i have re-read it over and over again since my freshman year "writing the essay" course. we were supposed to read academically-accepted, canonized or modern (i.e. susan sontag) essayists. but i saw this book and i knew: a lasting relationship was to be formed immediately. whenever i'm having trouble with an essay, i open up this book and the words i like come back to me, the ones that taste good and perhaps make my essays generally unacceptable to my professors. ask me...more
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Good Miller.
My favorite Miller essays always begin with him making an utterly pretentious statement and then following it with quasi-Eastern-religious platitudes. Let's face it, he was completely full of shit. That is why I love him. That is why he is a genius. That is why you should read him too.
I read this because I love Anaïs Nin SO MUCH. however instead of learning what she liked about him I only learned that Henry Miller is a pompous, pretentious ass. oh, wait..
well I never said Nin was without flaw.
well I never said Nin was without flaw.
Amazing philosophy!! <3
Excellent writing as always from Miller, except a lot of dated and inside material in this book of essays that I am ignorant of. That which I know about and his short stories are pretty much fucking awesome.
Probably the one book that "changed my life" more than any other, along with Siddhartha and a few others. Also was my first Henry Milller, and still his finest work in my eyes.
interesting collection of essays, good one to have on hand and keep reading as the moment hits you.
Jan 30, 2008
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Henry Miller sought to reestablish the freedom to live without the conventional restraints of civilization. His books are potpourris of sexual description, quasi-philosophical speculation, reflection on literature and society, surrealistic imaginings, and autobiographical incident.
After living in Paris in the 1930s, he returned to the United States and settled in Big Sur, Calif. Miller's first tw...more
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“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. In this state of god-like awareness one sings; in this realm the world exists as poem.”
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