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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. . . .

D. H. Lawrence

Black, Gold, Cypresses

'Giorno dei Morti' (1917)

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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 at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there. In his own pure individuality a man surpasses his father and mother, and is utterly unknown to them.

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Mother, Father, Men

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.5159, Delphi Classics

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I believe a man is born first unto himself - for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers.

D. H. Lawrence

Brother, Pain, Believe

D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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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.

D. H. Lawrence

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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Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.

D. H. Lawrence

Astrology, Venus, Saturn

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8473, Delphi Classics

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Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.

D. H. Lawrence

Men, Feelings, Vision

1929 'The Risen Lord'.

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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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Whales in mid-ocean, suspended in the waves of the sea great heaven of whales in the waters, old hierarchies. And enormous mother whales lie dreaming suckling their whale-tender young and dreaming with strange whale eyes wide open in the waters of the beginning and the end.

D. H. Lawrence

Mother, Dream, Lying

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6844, Delphi Classics

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Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

D. H. Lawrence

Freedom, People, Literature

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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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To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.

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Puritan, All Things

'Etruscan Places' (1932) 'Cerveteri'

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And then she realized that his presence was the wall, his presence was destroying her. Unless she could break out, she must die most fearfully, walled up in horror. And he was the wall. She must break down the wall. She must break him down before her, the awful obstruction of him who obstructed her life to the last. It must be done, or she must perish most horribly.

D. H. Lawrence

Broken Heart, Wall, Break Out

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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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This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green,
Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes,
Thorn-blossom lifting in wreaths of smoke between
Where the wood fumes up and the watery, flickering rushes.
I am amazed at this spring, this conflagration
Of green fires lit on the soil of the earth, this blaze
Of growing, and sparks that puff in wild gyration,
Faces of people streaming across my gaze.

D. H. Lawrence

Spring, Fire, Flames

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6168, Delphi Classics

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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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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.

D. H. Lawrence

Dark, Men, Egypt

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My God, what a clumsy olla putrida James Joyce is! Nothing but old fags and cabbage stumps of quotations from the Bible and the rest, stewed in the juice of deliberate, journalistic dirty-mindedness—what old and hard-worked staleness, masquerading as the all-new!

D. H. Lawrence

Dirty, Cabbage, Juice

Letter to Aldous and Maria Huxley, 15 August 1928, in H. T. Moore (ed.) 'Collected Letters of D. H. Lawrence' (1962) vol. 2

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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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Born: September 11, 1885
Died: March 2, 1930
Occupation: Novelist
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