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
men air water
I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.
men thinking thoughtful
Man is a thought-adventurer.
music mother children
Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.
music maturity remembrance
... The glamour Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance ...
friendship marriage passion
Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.
sex lying heart
Where is the source of all money-sickness, and the origin of all sex-perversion?.... It lies in the heart of man, and not in the conditions.
spiritual punishment dangerous
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
ocean cities swamps
Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
hate literature generations
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
humor men creating
It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
struggle joy columbus
The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
wisdom blood soul
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
selfish california effort
California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.
heart elephants fire
So slowly the hot elephant hearts grow full of desire, and the great beasts mate in secret at last, hiding their fire.