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 If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelisthonours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel. D. H. Lawrence vivid literature matter For even satire is a form of sympathy. It is the way our sympathy flows and recoils that really determines our lives. And here lies the vast importance of the novel, properly handled. It can inform and lead into new places our sympathy away in recoil from things gone dead. Therefore the novel, properly handled, can reveal the most secret places of life: for it is the passional secret places of life, above all, that the tide of sensitive awareness needs to ebb and flow, cleansing and freshening. D. H. Lawrence ebb-and-flow sympathy lying That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people. D. H. Lawrence soul literature people I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had. D. H. Lawrence perfection america thinking The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England is so vile. D. H. Lawrence real men country I would like [the working man] to give me back books and newspapers and theories. And I would like to give him back, in return, his old insouciance, and rich, original spontaneity and fullness of life. D. H. Lawrence fullness-of-life men book We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying D. H. Lawrence rising dying death The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow. D. H. Lawrence vanity broken death An illusion which is a real experience is worth having. D. H. Lawrence illusion experience real In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all. D. H. Lawrence hero god character That's how women are with me " said Paul. "They want me like mad but they don't want to belong to me. D. H. Lawrence mad want said Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation. D. H. Lawrence forever men country I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself. D. H. Lawrence If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of a harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule. D. H. Lawrence One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in them, as if they wished their lives did not add up to this scaly nullity of possession, but as if they could not escape. It is a dragon that has devoured us all: these obscene, scaly houses, this insatiable struggle and desire to possess, to possess always and in spite of everything, this need to be an owner, lest one be owned. It is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. One feels a sort of madness come over one, as if the world had become hell. But it is only superimposed: it is only a temporary disease. It can be cleaned away. D. H. Lawrence Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning was not a Word, but a chirrup. D. H. Lawrence For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are. D. H. Lawrence We and the cosmos are one. The cosmos is a vast body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great gleaming nerve-centre from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that Saturn has over us or Venus But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time... Now all this is literally true, as men knew in the great past and as they will know again. D. H. Lawrence We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive - and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. D. H. Lawrence Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster. D. H. Lawrence old good europe america
