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
god sanity
Where sanity is there God is.
expression form novel
The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
death journey ships
Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.
perfect rainbow thumbs
The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us to live,as nothing else can: no didactic Scripture, anyhow. If the novelist keeps his thumb out of the pan.
fun thinking bullets
I think I am much too valuable a creature to offer myself to a German bullet gratis and for fun.
passion dark voice
Persephone herself is but a voice or a darkness invisible enfolded in the deeper dark of the arms Plutonic, and pierced with the passion of dense gloom, among the splendor of torches of darkness, shedding darkness on the lost bride and her groom.
flower blue giving
Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of this flower
spiritual lying confused
The lion shall never lie down with the lamb. The lion eternally shall devour the lamb, the lamb eternally shall be devoured. Man knows the great consummation in the flesh, the sensual ecstasy, and that is eternal. Also the spiritual ecstasy of unanimity, that is eternal. But the two are separate and never to be confused.
trying nails get-up
If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.
love-you journey knights
One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, like any knight of the grail, and the journey is always towards the other soul, not away from it. . . . To love you have to learn to understand the other, more than she understands herself, and to submit to her understanding of you. It is damnably difficult and painful, but it is the only thing which endures.
religious might should
One should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything.
art book literature
Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
passion long common-sense
I can give you a spirit love, I have given you this long, long time; but not embodied passion. See, you are a nun. I have given you what I would give a holy nun...In all our relations no body enters. I do not talk to you through the senses - rather through the spirit. That is why we cannot love in the common sense.
men beard neckties
It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show.