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
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fighting love-is laughing
Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.
blood soul cosmos
My belief is in the blood and flesh as being wiser than the intellect. The body-unconsciou s is where life bubbles up in us. It is how we know that we are alive, alive to the depths of our souls and in touch somewhere with the vivid reaches of the cosmos.
discovery self years
To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful chords awake in us, and vibrate again after many hundreds of years of complete forgetfulness.
soul wonder my-soul
Oh, for the wonder that bubbles into my soul.
modern photograph
The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.
intuition desire instinct
What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.
sexy sex sensual
Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.
thrill ends live-by
You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.
humans human-beings
Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it.
astrology cosmos body
The # cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts.
moving particular absolutes
Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.
writing sneezing spiteful
I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze.
gossip never-trust tales
Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
courage real faces
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.