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D.H. Lawrence Quotes

«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.»
«I think more of a bird with broad wings flying and lapsing through the air, than anything, when I think of metre.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence (Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: lapsing, metre
«A snake came to my water-trough / On a hot, hot day, and I in pyjamas for the heat, / To drink there.»
«We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do--it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory b»
Author: D.H. Lawrence (Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Life | Keywords: blinking, onto, promontory, spur
«John Thomas says goodnight to Lady Jane, a little droopingly, but with a hopeful heart»
Author: D.H. Lawrence (Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Hope | Keywords: droopingly, hopeful, Lady Jane
«The English kill off all their poets by the time they're forty»
Author: D.H. Lawrence (Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: kill off
«Only in a novel are all things given full play»
«The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence (Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: upshot
«They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.»
«Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence (Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: obscenity