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
art blood mind
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
artist might censorship
The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.
science mysticism
When science starts to be interpretive it is more unscientific even than mysticism.
education religious building-up
He had made a passionate study of education, only to come, gradually, to the knowledge that education is nothing but the process of building up, gradually, a complete unit of consciousness. And each unit of consciousness is the living unit of that great social, religious, philosophic idea towards which humankind, like an organism seeking its final form, is laboriously growing.
courage home soul
The great home of the soul is the open road.
party people house
Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.
liberty individual esteem
I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?
god struggle dark
The history of the cosmos is the history of the struggle of becoming. When the dim flux of unformed life struggled, convulsed back and forth upon itself, and broke at last into light and dark came into existence as light, came into existence as cold shadow then every atom of the cosmos trembled with delight.
life-lesson mistake two
If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.
moon leader sun
He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the moon of our non-being.
sweet war home
The peasants of Sicily, who have kept their own wheat and make their own natural brown bread, ah, it is amazing how fresh and sweet and clean their loaf seems, so perfumed, as home-made bread used all to be before the war.
loss masturbation
In masturbation there is nothing but loss.
fun ifs values
If it doesn't absorb you, if it isn't any fun, don't do it.
autumn scent november
The acrid scents of autumn, Reminiscent of slinking beasts, make me fear