Henry Miller on Friendship and the Relationship Between Creativity and Community

The sunshine of life springs from twin suns. We may call them love and art. We may call them connection and creativity. Both can take many forms. Both, if they are worth their salt and we ours, ask us to show up as our whole selves. Both are instruments of unselfing.

It is often in the cradle of friendship — a word not to be used carelessly — that our creative energies are strengthened and renewed.