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> [Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence/reach-me-a-gentian-give-me-a-torch-let-me-guide-myself-with-the-blue/)

[D. H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence/)

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> [Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of this flower](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence/reach-me-a-gentian-give-me-a-torch-let-me-guide-myself-with-the-blue-2/)

[D. H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence/)

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> [Persephone herself is but a voice or a darkness invisible enfolded in the deeper dark of the arms Plutonic, and pierced with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence/persephone-herself-is-but-a-voice-or-a-darkness-invisible-enfolded-in/)

[D. H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence/)

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## Other authors on Persephone

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rick-riordan-79077.jpg) Rick Riordan 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/persephone/rick-riordan/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-maggie-stiefvater-62633.jpg) Maggie Stiefvater 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/persephone/maggie-stiefvater/)

## More by D. H. Lawrence

> [Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence/not-i-not-i-but-the-wind-that-blows-through-me-a-fine-wind-is-blowing/)

[D. H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence/and-venus-among-the-fishes-skips-and-is-a-she-dolphin-she-is-the-gay/)

[D. H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence/)

> [If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence/if-i-had-my-way-i-would-build-a-lethal-chamber-as-big-as-the-crystal/)

[D. H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence/)

> [Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion. The apples falling like great drops of dew to bruise…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence/now-it-is-autumn-and-the-falling-fruit-and-the-long-journey-towards/)

[D. H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence/)

> [We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence/we-have-to-hate-our-immediate-predecessors-to-get-free-of-their/)

[D. H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence/)

> [Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence/reach-me-a-gentian-give-me-a-torch-let-me-guide-myself-with-the-blue/)

[D. H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence/)

> [The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence/the-war-is-dreadful-it-is-the-business-of-the-artist-to-follow-it/)

[D. H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence/)

> [The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence/the-nearer-a-conception-comes-towards-finality-the-nearer-does-the/)

[D. H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence/)

> [It is our business to go as we are impelled.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence/it-is-our-business-to-go-as-we-are-impelled/)

[D. H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence/)

> [Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence/ours-is-essentially-a-tragic-age-so-we-refuse-to-take-it-tragically/)

[D. H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence/)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence/if-only-we-could-live-two-lives-the-first-in-which-to-make-one-s/)

[D. H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence/)

> [They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence/they-say-geniuses-mostly-have-great-mothers-they-mostly-have-sad-fates/)

[D. H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence/)

> [When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence/when-one-jumps-over-the-edge-one-is-bound-to-land-somewhere/)

[D. H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence/)

> [The living moment is everything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence/the-living-moment-is-everything/)

[D. H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence/)

> [If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence/if-a-woman-s-got-nothing-but-her-fair-fame-to-feed-on-why-it-s-thin/)

[D. H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence/)

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