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
communication heart stones
He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.
men technology chains-that-bind
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
doors be-careful difficult
Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens.
men world idiot
The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.
men blood said
It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said.
artist two way
The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points the other way, as a rule. Two blankly opposing morals, the artist's and the tale's. Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper functions of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
giving tragedy farce
Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let life be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want just now.
love-you flower fawns
You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them--
believe bits
You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
men lovely magic
Whatever life may be, and whatever horror men have made of it, the world is a lovely place, a magic place, something to marvel over. The world is an amazing place.
sarcastic eggs white
Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling invertebrates, the miserable soddingrotters, the flaming sods, the sniveling, dribbling, dithering, palsied, pulse-less lot that make up England today. They've got white of egg in their veins, and their spunk is that watery it's a marvel they can breed.
experience daily-life life-is
That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.
sea blood aging
They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.
crush time jesus
Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning it was not a Word, but a chirrup.