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
fighting love-is laughing
Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.
discovery self years
To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful chords awake in us, and vibrate again after many hundreds of years of complete forgetfulness.
modern photograph
The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.
thrill ends live-by
You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.
humans human-beings
Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it.
astrology cosmos body
The # cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts.
horse inspiration movement
The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.
horse dark soul
Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances.
leadership rushing action
One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.
ethical-principles justice judging
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
nice rain love-you
And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.
leave-me-alone going-away want
Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
philosophical men matter
They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.
growing-up responsibility steps
Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and the undifferentiated mass, to make something of herself! But what? In the obscurity and pathlessness to take a direction! But whither? How take even one step? And yet, how stand still? This was torment indeed, to inherit the responsibility of one’s own life.