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
inspiration passion purpose
Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.
inspirational love-is men
I'll do my life work, sticking up for the love between man and woman.
inspirational land bounds
When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
horse inspiration movement
The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.
inspirational men self
Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving.
inspirational life dream
I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
inspirational beauty soul
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
inspirational unseen consciousness
There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us.
inspirational motivation regret
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
love inspirational sky
We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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.
past race
Every race which has become self-conscious and idea-bound in the past has perished.