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
peace possess
Take nothing, to say: I have it! For you can possess nothing, not even peace.
experience full lovely ought peace ripe wrinkled
It ought to be lovely to be old, To be full of the peace that comes with experience And wrinkled ripe fulfillment
hate trying i-hate
I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
love-is wonder-love elements
When all comes to all, the most precious element in life is wonder. Love is a great emotion, and power is power. But both love and power are based on wonder.
loneliness filled-in waiting
It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.
too-much divine destruction
As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
women thinking giving
That's just what a woman is. She thinks she knows what's good for a man, and she's going to see he gets it; and no matter if he's starving, he may sit and whistle for what he needs, while she's got him, and is giving him what's good for him.
women fame donkey
If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!
children flower men
[Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other men. But his greatest and final relation is with the sun.
realms pure
One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.
ordinary-world creative virtue
You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.
money stamps seals
Money is the seal and stamp of success.
home europe worn
Europe is, perhaps, the least worn-out of the continents, because it is the most lived in. A place that is lived in lives.
women safe belief
[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.