What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist... by D. H. Lawrence

What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

D. H. Lawrence

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One realm we have never conquered: the pure present. by D. H. Lawrence

One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.

realms pure

Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.

astrology saturn venus

And to my lips' Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn.

hymns passion white

It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said. by D. H. Lawrence

It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said.

said men blood

That's it! When you come to know men, that's how they are: too se... by D. H. Lawrence

That's it! When you come to know men, that's how they are: too sensitive in the wrong place.

know-me sensitive men

If it doesn't absorb you, if it isn't any fun, don't do it. by D. H. Lawrence

If it doesn't absorb you, if it isn't any fun, don't do it.

values ifs fun

It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear... by D. H. Lawrence

It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show.

neckties beard men

It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must acce... by D. H. Lawrence

It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.

casting devil self

Where sanity is there God is. by D. H. Lawrence

Where sanity is there God is.

sanity god

The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction.

language self may

Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze.

breathe speak tree

Only youth has a taste of immortality. by D. H. Lawrence

Only youth has a taste of immortality.

immortality youth taste

Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still

rome evil america

Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven. by D. H. Lawrence

Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven.

november sun heaven

Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and darker stairs, where blue is darkened on blueness even where Persephone goes, just now, from the frosted September to the sightless realm where darkness is awake upon the dark.

flower dark blue

Museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which has no fixed order and will not be co-coordinated! It is sickening! Why must all experience be systematized? A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

crazy museums hands

The peasants of Sicily, who have kept their own wheat and make their own natural brown bread, ah, it is amazing how fresh and sweet and clean their loaf seems, so perfumed, as home-made bread used all to be before the war.

home sweet war

In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in E... by D. H. Lawrence

In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.

europe country america

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

miserable matter long

Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.

atheism death needs