D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 11

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• The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction.

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  Self, May, Language

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.238, Cambridge University Press

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• Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the sun and the earth. Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was a personal, merely personal feeling, taken away from the rising and the setting of the sun, and cut off from the magic connection of the solstice and the equinox!

  D. H. Lawrence

  Taken, Cutting, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.323, Cambridge University Press

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• My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks -- mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fall, Rocks, Wife

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.69, Cambridge University Press

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• Do come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world.

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  Lovely, Ferrets, Noble

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Women in Love”, p.269, Xist Publishing

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• The East is marvellously interesting for tracing our steps back. But for going forward, it is nothing. All it can hope for is to be fertilised by Europe, so that it can start on a new phase.

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  Europe, History, Interesting

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.608, Cambridge University Press

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• Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years. And for this reason, some old things are lovely warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.

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  Men, Glowing, Hands

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.162, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• One might talk about the sanity of the atom the sanity of space the sanity of the electron the sanity of water- For it is all alive and has something comparable to that which we call sanity in ourselves. The only oneness is the oneness of sanity.

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  Science, Oneness, Space

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.386, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The #‎ cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts.

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  Astrology, Cosmos, Body

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.77, Cambridge University Press

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• Sex is our deepest form of consciousness. It is utterly non-ideal, non-mental. It is pure blood-consciousness.... It is the consciousness of the night, when the soul is almost asleep.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Night, Blood

  D. H. Lawrence (2012). “Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious”, p.202, Courier Corporation

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• At the back of my life's horizon, where the dreamings of past lives crowd.

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  Dream, Healing, Past

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4192, Delphi Classics

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• I believe that there was a great age, a great epoch when man did not make war: previous to 2000 B.C. Then the self had not reallybecome aware of itself, it had not separated itself off, the spirit was not yet born, so there was no internal conflict, and hence no permanent external conflict.

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  War, Believe, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.172, Cambridge University Press

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• When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.

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  Leadership, Bullying, Men

  D. H. Lawrence (1995). “The Plumed Serpent”, p.61, Wordsworth Editions

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• Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.

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  Leadership, Responsibility, Equality

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• Only youth has a taste of immortality.

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  Taste, Youth, Immortality

  D. H. Lawrence (2013). “The Essential D.H. Lawrence”, p.1881, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Sweet, Soul, Body

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.95, Cambridge University Press

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• But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.

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  Men, Best Effort, Soul

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4272, Delphi Classics

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• I love you, rotten, Delicious rottenness. ...wonderful are the hellish experiences, Orphic, delicate Dionysos of the Underworld.

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  Love You, Rotten, Wonderful

  D.H. Lawrence (2016). “Snake and Other Poems”, p.56, Courier Dover Publications

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• In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of shame... She felt, now, she had come to the real bedrock of her nature, and was essentially shameless. She was her sensual self, naked an unashamed. She felt a triumph, almost a vainglory. So! That was how it was! That was life! That was how onself really was! There was nothing left to disguise or be ashamed of. She shared her ultimate nakedness with a man, another being.

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  Summer, Real, Night

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• I am convinced that the majority of people to-day have good, generous feelings which they can never know, never experience, because of some fear, some repression. I do not believe that people would be villains, thieves, murderers and sexual criminals if they were freed from legal restraint.

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  Freedom, Believe, People

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9398, Delphi Classics

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• The feelings I don't have I don't have. The feelings I don't have, I won't say I have. The felings you say you have, you don't have. The feelings you would like us both to have, we neither of us have.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Feelings

  David Herbert Lawrence, “To Women As Far As I'm Concerned”

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• The trees down the boulevard stand naked in thought,
  Their abundant summery wordage silenced, caught
  In the grim undertow; naked the trees confront
  Implacable winter's long, cross-questioning brunt.

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  Winter, Long, Tree

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4394, Delphi Classics

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• The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Horse, Food, Wine

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• After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches...and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what you want a book to be: because it leaves you so safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show. And that's what my books are not and never will be...Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it if he wants a safe seat in the audience-let him read someone else.

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  Art, Book, Reading

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• The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the nature of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Parent, Elements, Combination

  D.H. Lawrence (2015). “D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader”, p.476, Courier Dover Publications

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• Every profound new movement makes a great swing also backwards to some older, half-forgotten way of consciousness.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Change, Swings, Profound

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.80, Cambridge University Press

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