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D. H. Lawrence Quotes

Never have ideas about children -- and never have ideas for them.



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.



The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.



Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Love Quotes


The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.



This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.



Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Love Quotes


The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.



We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.



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



The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.



I shall always be a priest of love.

Love Quotes


Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.



The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters -- not to talk in armies and nations and numbers -- but to track it home.



God is only a great imaginative experience.