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Letter "D" » D.H. Lawrence Quotes
«Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity, mechanism, materialism.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
abstract, departed, entered, fixity, generalize, generalized, generalizes, generalizing, postulate, postulates, realm, static, Universals
«It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral»
«The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.»
«I feel I cannot touch humanity, even in thought, it is abhorrent to me. But a work of art is an act of faith, as Michael Angelo says, and one goes on writing, to the unseen witnesses.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
abhorrent, Michael, Michael Angelo, On Writing, The Unseen, unseen, witnesses, work of art
«Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too personal, and in the second, it is concerned with values that science ignores. The touchstone is emotion, not reason. We judge a work of art by its effect on our sincere and vital emotion, and nothing else. All the critical twiddle-twaddle about style and form, all this pseudoscientific classifying and analyzing of books in an imitation-botanical fashion, is mere impertinence and mostly dull jargon.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
analyzing, art critic, botanical, classify, critic, critical, criticizing, ignores, imitation, impertinence, in the first place, jargon, jargon of, literary, Literary Art, literary critic, literary criticism, literary work, mostly, pseudoscientific, reasoned, The Critic, touchstone, touchstones, twaddle, twiddle, twiddling, work of art
«A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Atheism,
Mankind,
Men,
Religion
| Keywords:
adding, gathered, modification, modifications, painfully, shaping, undergoing
«Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Pornography
| Keywords:
dirt, insult, pornography
«And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything as you like it, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose, and it's always daisy-time.»
«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.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Change,
Country,
Hate,
Society,
Vanity
| Keywords:
conceited, old country, puerile, senility, sophisticated
«I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.»
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