In The Books in My Life, after quoting the epigraph to Black Spring taken from Miguel de Unamuno, which readsCan I be as I believe myself or as others believe me to be? Here is where these lines become confession in the presence of my unknown and unknowable me, unknown and unknowable for myself. Here is where I create the legend wherein I must bury myself,Miller goes on to write, “These lines appear in the fly-leaf to Black Spring, a book which came nearer to being myself, I believe, than any book I have written before or since.”
In The Books in My Life, after quoting the epigraph to Black Spring taken from Miguel de Unamuno, which reads "Can I be as I believe myself or as others believe me to be?" Miller goes on to write, “These lines appear in the fly-leaf to Black Spring, a book which came nearer to being myself, I believe, than any book I have written before or since.”