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Letter "D" » D.H. Lawrence Quotes
«America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you - no awareness. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump! bump! go the trucks. And that is human contact.»
«I think more of a bird with broad wings flying and lapsing through the air, than anything, when I think of metre.»
«A snake came to my water-trough / On a hot, hot day, and I in pyjamas for the heat, / To drink there.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
In Hot Water, pyjamas, snake, trough, troughs
«We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do--it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory b»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
blinking, onto, promontory, spur
«John Thomas says goodnight to Lady Jane, a little droopingly, but with a hopeful heart»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Hope
| Keywords:
droopingly, hopeful, Lady Jane
«The English kill off all their poets by the time they're forty»
«Only in a novel are all things given full play»
«The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.»
«They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.»
«Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.»
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