Henry Miller on Friendship and the Relationship Between Creativity and Community

Poet David Whyte on friendship:

“The dynamic of friendship is almost always underestimated as a constant force in human life: a diminishing circle of friends is the first terrible diagnostic of a life in deep trouble: of overwork, of too much emphasis on a professional identity, of forgetting who will be there when our armored personalities run into... See more

I tend to be drawn to personal friendships that are also creative. That’s just the most fun. The people who I connect with the most are people who when we sit down and have dinner we end up talking about this cool idea, and all the sudden it’s technically work. But it’s a project, so just going out to lunch with a friend is like, “Oh, there’s a coo... See more

The dynamic of friendship is almost always underestimated as a constant force in human life. A diminishing circle of friends is the first terrible diagnostic of a life in deep trouble: of overwork, of too much emphasis on a professional identity, of forgetting who will be there when our armoured personalities run into the inevitable natural disaste

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