Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence George Durrellwas an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 February 1912
men poet conspiring
Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.
fire mind ignite
It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.
air squares pillars
Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.
beautiful kissing water
She took kisses like so many coats of paint […] how long and how vainly I searched for excuses which might make her amorality if not palatable at lest understandable. I realize now the time I wasted in this way; instead of enjoying her and turning aside from these preoccupations with the thought, ‘She is untrustworthy as she is beautiful. She takes love as plants do water, lightly, thoughtlessly.
sex psychics people
Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply a biological paraphrase of this truth - a primitive method of introducing minds to each other, engaging them. But most people are stuck in the physical aspect, unaware of the poetic rapport which it so clumsily tries to teach.
riches poverty cutters
Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
events baskets crabs
But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket
hero wine men
The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the winged gorgons, the bronze men, the philosophers - all of it seems to rise in the sour, pungent taste of these black olives between the teeth. A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
memories men misfortunes
The memory of man is as old as misfortune
hands life-is-like cucumbers
Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass.
artist littles today
All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness.
men clay made
Every man is made of clay and diamond, and no woman can nourish both.
criticism literature worms
A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature.
wine water taste
A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.