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
real garden literature
There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
girl mean teens
Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
war literature propaganda
Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
dog steps invincible
I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
love priests
I shall always be a priest of love.
art book reading
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
believe men self
I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.
men literature tales
Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
god fake-people atheism
God is only a great imaginative experience.
europe america literature
Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.
memories reality atheism
All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
love positive abnormal
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.
nature kissing nymphs
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
perfect judging soul
The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.