D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 21

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• A man must keep his earnestness nimble, to escape ridicule.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Nimble, Wit

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8848, Delphi Classics

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• A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Snakes, Water, Hot

  'Snake' (1923)

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• It is time that the Protestant Church, the Church of the Son, should be one again with the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of the Father. It is time that man shall cease, first to live in the flesh, with joy, and then, unsatisfied, to renounce and to mortify the flesh.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Father, Son, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4816, Delphi Classics

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• The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us to live,as nothing else can: no didactic Scripture, anyhow. If the novelist keeps his thumb out of the pan.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Perfect, Rainbow, Novelists

  D. H. Lawrence (1966). “Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Humor, Men, Creating

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3839, Delphi Classics

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• We are so conceited and so unproud.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Humility, Pride, Conceited

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.1347, Delphi Classics

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• Don't talk to me any more about poetry for months -- unless it is other men's work. I really love verse, even rubbish. But I'm fearfully busy at a novel, and brush all the gossamer of verse off my face.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Rubbish, Months

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.105, Cambridge University Press

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• Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Literature, Bones

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.417, Cambridge University Press

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• Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.

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  Two, Would Be, Different

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.243, Cambridge University Press

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• I think I am much too valuable a creature to offer myself to a German bullet gratis and for fun.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fun, Thinking, Bullets

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.219, Cambridge University Press

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• But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Peace, Mean, Giving

  D. H. Lawrence, Warren Roberts, James T. Boulton, Elizabeth Mansfield (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.170, Cambridge University Press

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• In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me the country.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Friends, Sympathy, Country

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.117, Cambridge University Press

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• Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready. Not before it is time, too.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Coffee, Black, Jackets

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Sea and Sardinia”, p.32, Cambridge University Press

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• The near end of the street was rather dark and had mostly vegetable shops. Abundance of vegetables - piles of white and green fennel, like celery, and great sheaves of young, purplish, sea-dust-coloured artichokes . . . long strings of dried figs, mountains of big oranges, scarlet large peppers, a large slice of pumpkin, a great mass of colours and vegetable freshness. . . .

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  Dark, Vegetables, Sea

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Sea and Sardinia”, p.22, Cambridge University Press

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• The history of the cosmos
  is the history of the struggle of becoming.
  When the dim flux of unformed life
  struggled, convulsed back and forth upon itself,
  and broke at last into light and dark
  came into existence as light,
  came into existence as cold shadow
  then every atom of the cosmos trembled with delight.

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  God, Struggle, Dark

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.385, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• O pity the dead that are dead, but cannot make
  the journey, still they moan and beat
  against the silvery adamant walls of life's exclusive city.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Death, Wall, Journey

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• If we had reverence for our life, our life would take at once religious form. But as it is, in our filthy irreverence, it remains a disgusting slough, where each one of us goes so thoroughly disguised in dirt that we are all alike and indistinguishab

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  Religious, Dirt, Irreverence

  D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.122, Cambridge University Press

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• And it seems to me a blasphemy to say that the Holy Spirit is Love. In the Old Testament it is an Eagle: in the New it is a Dove.Christ insists on the Dove: but in His supreme moments He includes the Eagle.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Bible, Eagles

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• It seems to me absolutely true, that our world, which appears to us the surface of all things, is really the bottom of a deep ocean: all our trees are submarine growths, and we are weird, scaly-clad submarine fauna, feeding ourselves on offal like shrimps. Only occasionally the soul rises gasping through the fathomless fathoms under which we live, far up to the surface of the ether, where there is true air.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Ocean, Our World, Air

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3924, Delphi Classics

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• If only I am keen and hard like the sheer tip of a wedge Driven by invisible blows, The rock will split, we shall come at the wonder, we shall find the Hesperides.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Blow, Rocks, Splits

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.184, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Travel, Venus De Milo, Society

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8209, Delphi Classics

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• The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Past, Moon, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• Reach me a gentian, give me a torch!
  let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of this flower

  D. H. Lawrence

  Flower, Blue, Giving

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.7123, Delphi Classics

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• Nobody can have the soul of me. My mother has had, and nobody can have it again. Nobody can come into my very self again, and breathe me like an atmosphere.

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  Mother, Self, Soul

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• And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place - even the butterfly. But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.

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  Flower, Butterfly, Wings

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