Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The spirit of the place is a strange thing. Our mechanical age tries to override it. But it does not succeed. In… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea she is… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion. The apples falling like great drops of dew to bruise… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close.… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
