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
wisdom science egypt
The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living termsonce had a vast and perhaps perfect science of itsown, a science in terms of life. In our era this science crumbled into magic and charlatanry. But even wisdom crumbles.
bible wisdom flames
I will wait and watch till the day of David at last shall be finished, and wisdom no more fox-faced, and the blood gets back its flame.
self devil casting
It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.
race dust civilization
In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.
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.
passion hymns white
And to my lips’ Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn...
smell doors lilies
It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.
pyramids egypt lasts
The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy.
education ignorance knowledge
We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.
america people society
America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you -- no awareness. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump! bump! go the trucks. And that is human contact.
women giving one-woman
The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
truth lying feelings
Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.
self may language
The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction.