D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Richards Lawrencewas an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as D. H. Lawrence. His collected works, among other things, represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, some of the issues Lawrence explores are emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth11 September 1885
should-have feels realising
One should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God.
liberty individual esteem
I do esteem individual liberty above everything.
life nature men
The man who had died looked nakedly on life, and saw a vast resoluteness everywhere flinging itself up in stormy or subtle wave-crests.... always the man who had died saw not the bird alone, but the short, sharp wave of life of which the bird was the crest.
beauty beautiful flannels
Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.
forget consciousness humans
The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
life beautiful rushing
Life is beautiful, as long as it consumes you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is gorgeous, glorious. It's when you burn a slow fire and save fuel, that life's not worth having.
art science psychology
We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.
horse wine foul
The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse.
art blood mind
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
artist might censorship
The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.
science mysticism
When science starts to be interpretive it is more unscientific even than mysticism.
education religious building-up
He had made a passionate study of education, only to come, gradually, to the knowledge that education is nothing but the process of building up, gradually, a complete unit of consciousness. And each unit of consciousness is the living unit of that great social, religious, philosophic idea towards which humankind, like an organism seeking its final form, is laboriously growing.
courage home soul
The great home of the soul is the open road.
party people house
Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.