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
country men forever
Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation.
men class males
How beastly the bourgeois is especially the male of the species
thinking bombs done
I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done.
sea tiny enjoy
The tiny fish enjoy themselves in the sea.
elephants beast mates
The elephant, the huge old beast, is slow to mate
home evening anxious
I see a redness suddenly come Into the evening's anxious breast-- 'Tis the wound of love goes home!
way bats wavering
At a wavering instant the swallows gave way to bats By the Ponte Vecchio . . . Changing guard.
air bridges circles
A circle swoop, and a quick parabola under the bridge arches Where light pushes through; A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air. A dip to the water.
leadership pride dark
While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.
morning doctors lust
When I went to the scientific doctor I realised what a lust there was in him to wreak his so-called science on me and reduce me to the level of a thing. So I said: Good-morning! and left him.
education bullying people
Most fatal, most hateful of all things is bullying.... Sensual bullying of course is fairly easily detected. What is more dangerous is ideal bullying. Bullying people into what is ideally good for them.
equality men differences
One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison.
being-yourself finals lasts
The final aim is not to know, but to be.... You've got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself. "Be yourself" is the last motto.
unique equality differences
When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.