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
rome america evil
Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still
puritan all-things
To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.
rest-of-life literature care
The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
elephants beast mates
The elephant, the huge old beast, is slow to mate
ocean our-world air
It seems to me absolutely true, that our world, which appears to us the surface of all things, is really the bottom of a deep ocean: all our trees are submarine growths, and we are weird, scaly-clad submarine fauna, feeding ourselves on offal like shrimps. Only occasionally the soul rises gasping through the fathomless fathoms under which we live, far up to the surface of the ether, where there is true air.
travel venus-de-milo society
Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.
pyramids egypt lasts
The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy.
leadership bullying men
When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.
realms pure
One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.
travel glasses ego
When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.
expression form novel
The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
touched known
We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.
astrology cosmos body
The # cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts.
leadership rushing action
One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.