What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist. D. H. Lawrence More Quotes by D. H. Lawrence More Quotes From D. H. Lawrence Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking. D. H. Lawrence morning father book The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire. D. H. Lawrence generations tree book She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte. D. H. Lawrence forte waiting patience I'm not sure if a mental relation with a woman doesn't make it impossible to love her. To know the mind of a woman is to end in hating her. Love means the pre-cognitive flow...it is the honest state before the apple. D. H. Lawrence hate love mean It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if se adored him too much, then she would lose herself, become effaced, and she did not want to be effaced, a slave, like a savage woman. She must not become a slave. She feared her adoration, yet she would not at once fight against it. D. H. Lawrence savages passion fighting For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired. D. H. Lawrence finality ends desire Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine. D. H. Lawrence wish men believe Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience. D. H. Lawrence religious men religion 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 perfect mean Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless. D. H. Lawrence flower love ideas Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description. D. H. Lawrence soul wisdom blood California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort. D. H. Lawrence california selfish effort Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes. D. H. Lawrence eye blood art God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything. D. H. Lawrence conceited hate country You don't want to be an animal, you want to observe your own animal functions, so as to get a mental thrill out of them. It is allpurely secondary--and more decadent than the most hide-bound intellectualism. D. H. Lawrence thrill want animal I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment. D. H. Lawrence kicking hate cheer The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living. D. H. Lawrence rest-of-life care literature 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. D. H. Lawrence home heart war Anatomy presupposes a corpse; psychology presupposes a world of corpses. D. H. Lawrence corpses psychology world Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead. D. H. Lawrence passion marriage friendship
