Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique. — Lawrence Durrell Anxiety Copy Share Image
All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely. — Lawrence Durrell Corruption Copy Share Image
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist. — Lawrence Durrell Art Copy Share Image
Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind. — Lawrence Durrell Fire Copy Share Image
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into… — Lawrence Durrell Books Copy Share Image
Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals. — Lawrence Durrell Animal Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do… — Lawrence Durrell Books Copy Share Image
Every man is made of clay and diamond, and no woman can nourish both. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass. — Lawrence Durrell Gravitation Copy Share Image
“This is what is meant by possession - to be passionately at war for the qualities in one another to contend for… — Lawrence Durrell Possession Copy Share Image
A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make… — Lawrence Durrell Confession Copy Share Image
There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is… — Lawrence Durrell Body Copy Share Image
“If you think of yourself as a sleeping city for example… what? You can sit quiet and hear the processes going on,… — Lawrence Durrell Business Copy Share Image
The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“These notes, however they may be read, are intended only as a painstaking affectionate commentary on a world into which I have… — Lawrence Durrell Books Copy Share Image
“The seeds of future events are carried within ourselves. They are implicit in us and unfold according to the laws of their… — Lawrence Durrell Future Copy Share Image
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this… — Lawrence Durrell Art Copy Share Image
“I realized then the truth about all love: that it is an absolute which takes all or forfeits all. The other feelings,… — Lawrence Durrell Aphrodite Copy Share Image
“There are some characters in this world who are marked down for self-destruction, and to these no amount of rational argument can… — Lawrence Durrell Self destruction Copy Share Image
“In her, as an Alexandrian, licence was in a curious way a form of self-abnegation, a travesty of freedom; and if I… — Lawrence Durrell Children Copy Share Image
“For years one has to put up with the feeling that people do not care, really care, about one; then one day… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
…I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which… — Lawrence Durrell Affliction Copy Share Image
“These are the moments which possess the writer, not the lover, and which live on perpetually. One can return to them time… — Lawrence Durrell Time Copy Share Image
The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“None of the great religions have done more than exclude, throw out a long range of prohibitions. But prohibitions create the desire… — Lawrence Durrell Prohibitions Copy Share Image
How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
What are stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing? — Lawrence Durrell Astronomy Copy Share Image
The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you... — Lawrence Durrell Art Copy Share Image
An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has… — Lawrence Durrell Bird Copy Share Image
The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it. — Lawrence Durrell Apprehension Copy Share Image
A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants. — Lawrence Durrell City Copy Share Image
“It is hard to fight with one's heart's desires; whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of the soul.” — Lawrence Durrell Desire Copy Share Image
