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
issues confusion trying
Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.
love heart rocks
Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense and permanent.
might logic
Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.
fall civilization vision
Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.
winning men dragons
Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage.
real rip snakes
Sometimes snakes can’t slough. They can’t burst their old skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody ever sees the new pattern. It needs a real desperate recklessness to burst your old skin at last. You simply don’t care what happens to you, if you rip yourself in two, so long as you do get out.
heaven sun november
Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven.
animal love-is men
The Aztec gods and goddesses are, as far as we have known anything about them, an unlovely and unlovable lot. In their myths there is no grace or charm, no poetry. Only this perpetual grudge, grudge, grudging, one god grudging another, the gods grudging men their existence, and men grudging the animals. The goddess of love is goddess of dirt and prostitution, a dirt-eater, a horror, without a touch of tenderness...
forever body forget
Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity.
life rain dark
We are dying, we are dying, piecemeal our bodies are dying and our strength leaves us, and our soul cowers naked in the dark rain over the flood, cowering in the last branches of the tree of our life.
country america europe
In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.
inspirational love-is men
I'll do my life work, sticking up for the love between man and woman.
beautiful imagination world
The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination.
art oneness awareness
Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness... meaning at-oneness, the state of being at one with the object.