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
principles life-is this-life
The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.
men jewels wire
We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the barb-wire enclosure of FREEDOM, and make 'em work. Work, you free jewel, WORK! shouts the liberator, cracking his whip.
heart butterfly fighting
Melville had to fight, fight against the existing world, against his own very self. Only he would never quite put the knife in the heart of his paradisal ideal. Somehow, somewhere, somewhen, love should be a fulfillment, and life should be a thing of bliss. That was his fixed ideal. Fata Morgana. That was the pin he tortured himself on, like a pinned-down butterfly.
military sick band
If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and a Cinematograph working brightly; then I'd go out in the back streets and main streets and bring them in, all the sick, the halt, and the maimed; I would lead them gently, and they would smile me a weary thanks; and the band would softly bubble out the 'Hallelujah Chorus'.
may lucky rich
It's better to be born lucky than rich. If you're rich, you may lose your money, but if you're born lucky, you will always have more money.
sex long cocktails
Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to about the same thing.
lying men process
Mystic equality lies in abstraction, not in having or in doing, which are processes. In function and process, one man, one part, must of necessity be subordinate to another. It is a condition of being.
god sanity
Where sanity is there God is.
expression form novel
The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
death journey ships
Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.
perfect rainbow thumbs
The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us to live,as nothing else can: no didactic Scripture, anyhow. If the novelist keeps his thumb out of the pan.
fun thinking bullets
I think I am much too valuable a creature to offer myself to a German bullet gratis and for fun.
passion dark voice
Persephone herself is but a voice or a darkness invisible enfolded in the deeper dark of the arms Plutonic, and pierced with the passion of dense gloom, among the splendor of torches of darkness, shedding darkness on the lost bride and her groom.
flower blue giving
Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of this flower