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
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
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The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points the other way, as a rule. Two blankly opposing morals, the artist's and the tale's. Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper functions of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually finds his weak spot, and he goes cranked, or goes under.
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An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.
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Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.
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Is it the secret of the long-nosed Etruscans?/ The long-nosed, sensitive footed, subtly-smiling Etruscans, / Who made so little noise outside the cypress groves?
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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge, man-being and woman-being.
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Every race which has become self-conscious and idea-bound in the past has perished.
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Marriage is a long event of perpetual change in which a man and a woman mutually build up their souls and make themselves whole.
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I think more of a bird with broad wings flying and lapsing through the air, than anything, when I think of metre.