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
europe history interesting
The East is marvellously interesting for tracing our steps back. But for going forward, it is nothing. All it can hope for is to be fertilised by Europe, so that it can start on a new phase.
jobs real mind
The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls up some repulsive emotion. Well, then, cleanse the mind, that is the real job. It is the mind which is the Augean stables, not language.
love-you being-in-love men
Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.
hate tragedy literature
I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery.
tree speak breathe
Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze.
past waiting sitting
Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present?
travel venus-de-milo society
Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.
happiness believe personality
I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes.
sympathy courage men
Shall I tell you what you have that other men don't?.... It's the courage of your own tenderness.
mother father men
Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there. In his own pure individuality a man surpasses his father and mother, and is utterly unknown to them.
change knowledge loss
The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose.
men sensitive know-me
That's it! When you come to know men, that's how they are: too sensitive in the wrong place.
friendship success world
Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don't get on very well with the world.
fate tragedy literature
The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked our irrevocable fate.