D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 24

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• I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

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  Christian, Past, Greatness

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.200, Cambridge University Press

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• To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Struggle, Flower, Book

  D. H. Lawrence, N. H. Reeve, John Worthen (2005). “Introductions and Reviews”, p.78, Cambridge University Press

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• The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire.

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  Book, Tree, Generations

  D. H. Lawrence (1995). “The Rainbow”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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• Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Morning, Father, Book

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.1314, Delphi Classics

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• And still I look for the men who will dare to be
  roses of England
  wild roses of England
  men who are wild roses of England
  with metal thorns, beware!
  but still more brave and still more rare
  the courage of rosiness in a cabbage world
  fragrance of roses in a stale stink of lies
  rose-leaves to bewilder the clever fools
  and rose-briars to strangle the machine.

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  Clever, Lying, Men

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.214, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• And can a man his own quietus make
  with a bare bodkin?

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  Suicide, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6883, Delphi Classics

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• I see a redness suddenly come
  Into the evening's anxious breast--
  'Tis the wound of love goes home!

  D. H. Lawrence

  Home, Evening, Anxious

  D.H. Lawrence (2016). “Snake and Other Poems”, p.7, Courier Dover Publications

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• and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin
  she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea
  she is the female tunny-fish, round and happy among the males
  and dense with happy blood, dark rainbow bliss in the sea.

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  Gay, Dark, Blood

  David Herbert Lawrence, “Whales Weep Not!”

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• Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Country, Men, Forever

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• I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Thinking, Tourists, Bombs

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.46, Cambridge University Press

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• Why does the thin grey strand
  Floating up from the forgotten
  Cigarette between my fingers,
  Why does it trouble me?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Doe, Floating, Forgotten

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4222, Delphi Classics

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• So slowly the hot elephant hearts
  grow full of desire,
  and the great beasts mate in secret at last,
  hiding their fire.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Heart, Fire, Elephants

  D.H. Lawrence (1961). “Selected Poems”

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• At a wavering instant the swallows gave way to bats
  By the Ponte Vecchio . . .
  Changing guard.

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  Way, Bats, Wavering

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6446, Delphi Classics

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• I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Australia, Perfection

  1922 Letter, 28 May.

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• Along the avenue of cypresses,
  All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices
  Of linen, go the chanting choristers,
  The priests in gold and black, the villagers. . . .

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  Black, Gold, Cypresses

  'Giorno dei Morti' (1917)

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• With a woman, a man always wants to let himself go. And it is precisely with a woman that he should never let himself go ... but stick to his innermost belief and meet her just there.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Want, Sticks

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3522, Delphi Classics

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• Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Self, Pity, Ends

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.7647, Delphi Classics

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• It is marriage, perhaps, which had given man the best of his freedom, given him his little kingdom of his own within the big kingdom of the state.... It is a true freedom because it is a true fulfilment, for man, woman and children. Do we then want to break marriage? If we do break it, it means we all fall to a far greater extent under the direct sway of the State.

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  Children, Fall, Mean

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• Hate's a growing thing like anything else. It's the inevitable outcome of forcing ideas onto life, of forcing one's deepest instincts; our deepest feelings we force according to certain ideas.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Hate, Ideas, Feelings

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.39, Cambridge University Press

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• Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hands on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Hands, Alcohol, Drug

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8224, Delphi Classics

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• Previously, even in Egypt, men had not learned to see straight. They fumbled in the dark, and didn't quite know where they were, or what they were. Like men in a dark room, they only felt their existence surging in the darkness of other creatures. We, however, have learned to see ourselves for what we are, as the sun sees us. The Kodak bears witness.

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  Dark, Men, Egypt

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• The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Light, Silence, Darkness

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sons and Lovers: Top Novelist Focus”, p.124, 谷月社

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• But I like the feel of men on things, while they're alive. There's a feel of men about trucks, because they've been handled with men's hands, all of them.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Hands, Alive

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.442, Book House

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• You don't learn algebra with your blessed soul. Can't you look at it with your clear simple wits?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Blessed, Simple, Soul

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.465, Book House

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• I can give you a spirit love, I have given you this long, long time; but not embodied passion. See, you are a nun. I have given you what I would give a holy nun...In all our relations no body enters. I do not talk to you through the senses - rather through the spirit. That is why we cannot love in the common sense.

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  Passion, Long, Common Sense

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