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
broken-heart wall break-out
And then she realized that his presence was the wall, his presence was destroying her. Unless she could break out, she must die most fearfully, walled up in horror. And he was the wall. She must break down the wall. She must break him down before her, the awful obstruction of him who obstructed her life to the last. It must be done, or she must perish most horribly.
wisdom soul morality
Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.
marriage sphinx decree
The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.
luck want literature
I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.
rome america evil
Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still
serious aristocracy consciousness
The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.
time blow wind
Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.
life hurt ocean
We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do - it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.
love want pockets
You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered.
mother dream lying
Whales in mid-ocean, suspended in the waves of the sea great heaven of whales in the waters, old hierarchies. And enormous mother whales lie dreaming suckling their whale-tender young and dreaming with strange whale eyes wide open in the waters of the beginning and the end.
cutting smell psychology
If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.
snakes water hot-days
A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.
sweet soul body
It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
men two source
The source of all life and knowledge is in # man and # woman , and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge , man-being and woman-being.