D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 27

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• We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying
  and nothing will stay the death-flood rising within us
  and soon it will rise on the world, on the outside world.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Death, Dying, Rising

  David Herbert Lawrence (1994). “The Works of D.H. Lawrence: With an Introduction and Bibliography”, p.604, Wordsworth Editions

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• The journey of love has been rather a lacerating, if well-worth-it, journey.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Journey, Wells, Has Beens

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8130, Delphi Classics

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• A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Depression, Men, Hands

  D. H. Lawrence, Keith Sagar (1986). “Selected Poetry”, ePenguin

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• You feel free in Australia. There is great relief in the atmosphere - a relief from tension, from pressure, an absence of control of will or form. The Skies open above you and the areas open around you.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sky, Australia, Atmosphere

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• Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Passion, Literature

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.135, Cambridge University Press

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• I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Thinking, America, Perfection

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.50, Cambridge University Press

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• How I hate the attitude of ordinary people to life. How I loathe ordinariness! How from my soul I abhor nice simple people, with their eternal price list. It makes my blood boil.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Attitude, Hate, Nice

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.542, Cambridge University Press

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• For, of course, being a girl, one’s whole dignity and meaning in life consisted in the achievement of an absolute, a perfect, a pure and noble freedom. What else did a girl’s life mean?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Girl, Mean, Perfect

  D. H. Lawrence (2013). “The Essential D.H. Lawrence”, p.1590, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics.... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose in cruelty against themselves, admitting that they are pandering to, and despising, the lower self.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Self, Poetry, Admitting

  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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• Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Girl, Mean, Teens

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I serve God. And my hymn and my game of joy is my work.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Spiritual, Games, Hymns

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8830, Delphi Classics

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• Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Native American, Land, Red

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8205, Delphi Classics

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• The mystery of the evening-star brilliant in silence and distance between the downward-surging plunge of the sun and the vast, hollow seething of inpouring night. The magnificence of the watchful morning-star, that watches between the night and the day, the gleaming clue to the two opposites.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Morning, Stars, Distance

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3360, Delphi Classics

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• Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep;
  And disgustingly upside down.
  Hanging upside down like rows of disgusting old rags
  And grinning in their sleep.
  Bats!

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sleep, Rags, Bats

  D.H. Lawrence (2016). “Snake and Other Poems”, p.51, Courier Dover Publications

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• It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Nature, Doors, Smell

  D.H. Lawrence (2015). “D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader”, p.278, Courier Dover Publications

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• While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Leadership, Pride, Dark

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3409, Delphi Classics

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• America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you -- no awareness. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump! bump! go the trucks. And that is human contact.

  D. H. Lawrence

  America, People, Society

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• There is no evolving, only unfolding. The lily is in the bit of dust which is its beginning, lily and nothing but lily: and the lily in blossom is a ne plus ultra: there is no evolving beyond.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dust, Lilies, Evolution

  D. H. Lawrence (2007). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence: October 1916-June 1921”, p.139, Cambridge University Press

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• Isn't it god's own image? tramping his thirty miles a day
  after partridges, or a little rubber ball?
  wouldn't you like to be like that, well off, and quite the thing?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Class, Rubber, Balls

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.278, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them--

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love You, Flower, Fawns

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.707, Delphi Classics

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• The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points the other way, as a rule. Two blankly opposing morals, the artist's and the tale's. Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper functions of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Artist, Two, Way

  Studies in Classic American Literature (1923) ch. 1

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• One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Two Sides, People, Literature

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• Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the deed.... Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos, and the permanence of marriage.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Marriage, Religious, Blow

  D.H. Lawrence (2000). “Lady Chatterley's Lover”, p.30, Modern Library

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• Ah, then, upon my bedroom I do draw
  The blind to hide the garden, where the moon
  Enjoys the open blossoms as they straw
  Their beauty for his taking, boon for boon.
  
  And I do lift my aching arms to you,
  And I do lift my anguished, avid breast,
  And I do weep for very pain of you,
  And fling myself at the doors of sleep, for rest.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Pain, Sleep

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6178, Delphi Classics

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• Only in a novel are all things given full play.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Writing, Play, Literature

  D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.198, Cambridge University Press

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