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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past sea age
The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.
lovely noble literature
Do come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world.
horse dark men
How the horse dominated the mind of the early races especially of the Mediterranean! You were a lord if you had a horse. Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances...The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action in man!
dream healing past
At the back of my life's horizon, where the dreamings of past lives crowd.
land sorrow gold
Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me.
self devil casting
It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.
soul sticks traitor
One should stick by one's soul, and by nothing else. In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death. And if one betrays one's own soul-knowledge one is the worst of traitors.
sex thinking society
I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating.
cake rotten
You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you.
jesus religion dry
Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.
falling-in-love men falling-in-love-with-you
I am in love and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man.
smell doors lilies
It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.
clever lying men
And still I look for the men who will dare to be roses of England wild roses of England men who are wild roses of England with metal thorns, beware! but still more brave and still more rare the courage of rosiness in a cabbage world fragrance of roses in a stale stink of lies rose-leaves to bewilder the clever fools and rose-briars to strangle the machine.
religious might should
One should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything.