D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 25

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• Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Artist, Literature, Never Trust

  Studies in Classic American Literature (1923) ch. 1

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• He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Oneself, Conscience

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.151, D. H. Lawrence

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• She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Able, Denied

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.8, Cambridge University Press

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• When along the pavement, Palpitating flames of life, People flicker around me, I forget my bereavement, The gap in the great constellation, The place where a star used to be

  D. H. Lawrence

  Stars, Flames, People

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4233, Delphi Classics

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• I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Believe, Coal Miners, Perfect

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• Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite, exquisite and melting her all molten inside.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Running, Flames, Sensual

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.167, D. H. Lawrence

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• I'll do my life work, sticking up for the love between man and woman.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Inspirational, Love Is, Men

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• I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fashion, Names, Labels

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.40, D. H. Lawrence

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• Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Heaven, Sun, November

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6598, Delphi Classics

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• Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Winning, Men, Dragons

  D. H. Lawrence (1956). “The Virgin and the Gipsy”

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• Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fall, Civilization, Vision

  D. H. Lawrence (1962). “The Art of Perversity”

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• The whole life-effort of man is to get his life into direct contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain life, cloud life, thunder life, air life, earth life, sun life. To come into immediate felt contact, and so derive energy, power and a dark sort of joy. This effort into sheer naked contact, without an intermediary or mediator is the root meaning of religion.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dark, Men, Roots

  D. H. Lawrence (2017). “Phoenix: the Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.147, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) via PublishDrive

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• There is the unknown and the unknowable which propounds all creation. This we cannot love , we can only accept it as a term of our own limitation and ratification. We can only know that from the unknown, profound desires enter in upon us, and that the fulfilling of these desires is the fulfilling of creation.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Profound, Desire, Creation

  "Phoenix: the Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence".

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• Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and darker stairs, where blue is darkened on blueness even where Persephone goes, just now, from the frosted September to the sightless realm where darkness is awake upon the dark.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Flower, Dark, Blue

  David Herbert Lawrence, “Bavarian Gentians”

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• Museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which has no fixed order and will not be co-coordinated! It is sickening! Why must all experience be systematized? A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Crazy, Museums, Hands

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• The peasants of Sicily, who have kept their own wheat and make their own natural brown bread, ah, it is amazing how fresh and sweet and clean their loaf seems, so perfumed, as home-made bread used all to be before the war.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sweet, War, Home

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• In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Country, Europe, America

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4224, Delphi Classics

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• The Moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she actually communicates to me across space I shall never fully know. But the Moon that pulls the tides, and the Moon that controls the menstrual periods of women, and the Moon that touches the lunatics, she is not the mere dead lump of the astronomist. . . . When we describe the Moon as dead, we are describing the deadness in ourselves. When we find space so hideously void, we are describing our own unbearable emptiness.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Moon, Night, Sky

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

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• Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.

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  Death, Journey, Ships

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

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• I don't like your miserable lonely single front name. It is so limited, so meager; it has no versatility; it is weighted down with the sense of responsibility; it is worn threadbare with much use; it is as bad as having only one jacket and one hat; it is like having only one relation, one blood relation, in the world. Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.

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  Lonely, Children, Responsibility

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• Yea, Paris is a festive ton -- a festive Ton for all! Skate o'er on joy -- Thin crust of gilded, polished joy! What matters it if Hell's beneath?

  D. H. Lawrence

  What Matters, Paris, Joy

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• The only reality was nothingness, and over it a hypocrisy of words.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Reality, Hypocrisy, Over It

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3730, Delphi Classics

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• How can any man be free without a soul of his own, that he believes in and won't sell at any price?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Believe, Men, Soul

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.29, Cambridge University Press

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• Death is ... a travelling asunder into elemental chaos. And from the elemental chaos all is cast forth again into creation. Therefore death also is but a cul-de-sac, a melting-pot.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Melting, Chaos, Creation

  D. H. Lawrence (2017). “Phoenix: the Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.151, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) via PublishDrive

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• I am turned into a dream. I feel nothing, or I don't know what I feel. Yet it seems to me I am happy.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dream, Feels, Knows

  D. H. Lawrence, Dieter Mehl (2002). “The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories”, p.163, Cambridge University Press

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