The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind. D. H. Lawrence More Quotes by D. H. Lawrence More Quotes From D. H. Lawrence I want us to be together without bothering about ourselves- to be really together because we ARE together, as if it were a phenomenon, not a thing we have to maintain by our own effort. D. H. Lawrence effort together want When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos. D. H. Lawrence lonely complaining people We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the barb-wire enclosure of FREEDOM, and make 'em work. Work, you free jewel, WORK! shouts the liberator, cracking his whip. D. H. Lawrence wire jewels men Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage. D. H. Lawrence going-away want leave-me-alone Do come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world. D. H. Lawrence ferrets lovely noble The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can. D. H. Lawrence idiot men world Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace. D. H. Lawrence singing soul dark The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself. D. H. Lawrence women literature giving Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready. Not before it is time, too. D. H. Lawrence jackets black coffee Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit? D. H. Lawrence feels friendship believe Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity. D. H. Lawrence body forever forget 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 sunlight nature tree And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation. D. H. Lawrence change self work Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising. D. H. Lawrence criticism feelings book Let man only approach his own self with a deep respect, even reverence for all that the creative soul, the God-mystery within us, puts forth. Then we shall all be sound and free. Lewdness is hateful because it impairs our integrity and our proud being. The creative, spontaneous soul sends forth its promptings of desire and aspiration in us. These promptings are our true fate, which is our business to fulfill. A fate dictated from outside, from theory or from circumstance, is a false fate. D. H. Lawrence fate creative self For God’s sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces. D. H. Lawrence machines tails men Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot. D. H. Lawrence idiot our-society mean 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 museums hands art For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once. D. H. Lawrence feet giving men Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out. D. H. Lawrence spending giving civilization
