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
body cosmos great heart knows moon power run smallest sun vast whose
We and the cosmos are one. The cosmos is a vast body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great gleaming nerve-centre from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that
sweet soul body
It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
forever body forget
Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity.
hate mind body
Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
hurt body littles
What a frail, easily hurt, rather pathetic thing a human body is, naked; somehow a little unfinished, incomplete!
body eras spirit
The history of our era is the nauseating and repulsive history of the crucifixion of the procreative body for the glorification ofthe spirit.
intuition mind body
The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
cutting body faces
The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist.
astrology cosmos body
The # cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts.
love body force
And whoever forces himself to love anybody begets a murderer in his own body.
love-is joy body
Love is the hastening gravitation of spirit towards spirit, and body towards body, in the joy of creation.
noise outside secret sensitive
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?
alone capable people perhaps
Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
knowledge life living man meeting men-and-women source
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.