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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should-have feels realising
One should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God.
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.
wonder sixth-sense sense-of-wonder
The sense of wonder, that is our sixth sense.
culture bait drink
Don't be sucked in by the su-superior, don't swallow the culture bait, don't drink, don't drink and get beerier and beerier, do learn to discriminate.
mistake black machines
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.
spiritual games hymns
If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I serve God. And my hymn and my game of joy is my work.
dust turns substitution
When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution.
sex flower roots
Sex is the root of which intuition is the foliage and beauty is the flower.
blow rocks splits
If only I am keen and hard like the sheer tip of a wedge Driven by invisible blows, The rock will split, we shall come at the wonder, we shall find the Hesperides.
might logic
Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.
issues confusion trying
Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.
attitude nice hate
How I hate the attitude of ordinary people to life. How I loathe ordinariness! How from my soul I abhor nice simple people, with their eternal price list. It makes my blood boil.
may lucky rich
It's better to be born lucky than rich. If you're rich, you may lose your money, but if you're born lucky, you will always have more money.
dark men air
The whole life-effort of man is to get his life into direct contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain life, cloud life, thunder life, air life, earth life, sun life. To come into immediate felt contact, and so derive energy, power and a dark sort of joy. This effort into sheer naked contact, without an intermediary or mediator is the root meaning of religion.