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
discovery self years
To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful chords awake in us, and vibrate again after many hundreds of years of complete forgetfulness.
horse inspiration movement
The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.
courage real faces
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
moving particular absolutes
Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.
leadership rushing action
One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.
beautiful expression masculinity
How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
religious wonder natural
There is a sixth sense, the natural religious sense, the sense of wonder.
adventure men action
The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
gossip never-trust tales
Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
science oxygen two
Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.
philosophy blessed mean
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
book jewels profound
We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience very time. It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books.
writing sneezing spiteful
I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze.
philosophical men matter
They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.