I never knew how soothing trees are-many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being. D. H. Lawrence More Quotes by D. H. Lawrence More Quotes From D. H. Lawrence I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate. D. H. Lawrence fate running love After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches...and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what you want a book to be: because it leaves you so safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show. And that's what my books are not and never will be...Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it if he wants a safe seat in the audience-let him read someone else. D. H. Lawrence reading book art 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 ... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not want that old sanity of the world, which was become so repulsive. He rejoiced in the new-found world of his madness. It was so fresh and delicate and so satisfying. D. H. Lawrence want depression world That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction. D. H. Lawrence magic power attention Every profound new movement makes a great swing also backwards to some older, half-forgotten way of consciousness. D. H. Lawrence swings change profound I don't believe any more in democracy. But I can't believe in the old sort of aristocracy, either, nor can I wish it back, splendid as it was. What I believe in is the old Homeric aristocracy, when the grandeur was inside a man, and he lived in a simple wooden house. D. H. Lawrence simple men believe We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority. D. H. Lawrence generations hate literature When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains. D. H. Lawrence bullying leadership men The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens. D. H. Lawrence dozen soul thinking Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life. D. H. Lawrence swamps ocean cities Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration. D. H. Lawrence passion purpose inspiration The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump? D. H. Lawrence moon men past The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity. D. H. Lawrence deities study men The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one. D. H. Lawrence morality artist literature The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack. D. H. Lawrence punishment dangerous spiritual The old ideals are dead as nails--nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman--sort of ultimate marriage--and there isn't anything else. D. H. Lawrence marriage perfect men The history of our era is the nauseating and repulsive history of the crucifixion of the procreative body for the glorification ofthe spirit. D. H. Lawrence eras body history The whole point about the true unconscious is that it is all the time moving forward, beyond the range of its own fixed laws or habits. It is no good trying to superimpose an ideal nature upon the unconscious. D. H. Lawrence change law moving That is the real pivot of all bourgeois consciousness in all countries: fear and hate of the instinctive, intuitional, procreativebody in man or woman. But of course this fear and hate had to take on a righteous appearance, so it became moral, said that the instincts, intuitions and all the activities of the procreative body were evil, and promised a reward for their suppression. That is the great clue to bourgeois psychology: the reward business. D. H. Lawrence real country sex
