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
abnormal craving eternal fill shortage
You don't want to love--your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
noise outside secret sensitive
Is it the secret of the long-nosed Etruscans?/ The long-nosed, sensitive footed, subtly-smiling Etruscans, / Who made so little noise outside the cypress groves?
arms blew both cold draught eternity fine gain given hold hopes might past seemed sleep warm woman wrapped
It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. Now he would have given all he had or ever might have to hold her warm in his arms, both of them wrapped in one blanket, and sleep. All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
deny
Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life.
bourgeois inevitably itself length opposite produces truth
The bourgeois produces the bolshevist, inevitably as every half-truth at length produces the contradiction of itself in the opposite half-truth.
essential killer soul
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic and a killer
flooding life submit unless
Unless we submit our will to the flooding of life, there is no life in us.
profound desire creation
From the unknown, profound desires enter in upon us, and ... the fulfilling of those desires is the fulfilling of creation.
tin sardines hard
It's hard to ravish a tin of sardines.
ships needs voyages
Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.
humility pride conceited
We are so conceited and so unproud.
leadership women men
No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.
ordinary-world creative virtue
You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.
being-yourself sun dandelions
No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.