“The proper way to eat a fig, in society, Is to split it in four, holding it by the stump, And open it, so that it is a glittering, rosy, moist, honied, heavy-petalled four-petalled flower.” — dh lawrence Copy Share Image
And down his mouth comes to my mouth! and down His bright dark eyes come over me, like a hood Upon my mind! his… — DH Lawrence Copy Share
The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser. And as soon as… — DH Lawrence Copy Share
It ought to be lovely to be old, To be full of the peace that comes with experience And wrinkled ripe fulfillment — DH Lawrence Copy Share
“The young man, perched insecurely in the slender branches, rocked till he felt slightly drunk, reached down the boughs, where the scarlet beady cherries… — DH Lawrence Copy Share
One sheds one's sicknesses in books--repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.One sheds one's sicknesses in books--repeats and presents again… — DH Lawrence Copy Share
All people dream, but no equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the morning to find… — DH Lawrence Copy Share
The chief thing about a woman -- who is much of a woman -- is that in the long run she is not to… — DH Lawrence Copy Share
Temperance: Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods. — DH Lawrence Copy Share
“Any woman who doesn't have a little bit of whore in her is pretty much a dried up stick.” — DH Lawrence Copy Share
“In the inner dark she saw a handsome bay horse with his clean ears pricked like daggers from his naked head as he swung… — DH Lawrence Copy Share
It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. Now he would have… — DH Lawrence Copy Share
“You, if you were sensible, When I tell you the stars flash signals, each one dreadful, You would not turn and answer me The… — DH Lawrence Copy Share
In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake… — DH Lawrence Copy Share
