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
sex dirty civilization
I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty sex. Because no other civilization has driven sex into the underworld, and nudity to the W.C.
america literature hawthorne
[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.
writing humanity mass
The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
moon dragons blood
There is an eternal vital correspondence between our blood and the sun: there is an eternal vital correspondence between our nerves and the moon. If we get out of contact and harmony with the sun and moon, then both turn into great dragons of destruction against us.
love pain sleep
Ah, then, upon my bedroom I do draw The blind to hide the garden, where the moon Enjoys the open blossoms as they straw Their beauty for his taking, boon for boon. And I do lift my aching arms to you, And I do lift my anguished, avid breast, And I do weep for very pain of you, And fling myself at the doors of sleep, for rest.
peace mean giving
But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.
country real men
The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England is so vile.
heart men should
Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
soul
Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.
knows
One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
play given novel
Only in a novel are all things given full play.
strange absolutes
The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
husband wife unhappiness
The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband.
firsts steps common
They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.