At a wavering instant the swallows gave way to bats By the Ponte Vecchio . . . Changing guard. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Now the only decent way to get something done is to get it done by somebody who quite likes doing it. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Every profound new movement makes a great swing also backwards to some older, half-forgotten way of consciousness. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific.… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The way is through daily ritual,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it… — 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… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a person to make money. It's nothing you… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
For even satire is a form of sympathy. It is the way our sympathy flows and recoils that really determines our lives.… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Is our day of creative life finished? Does there remain to us only the strange, awful afterwards of the knowledge in dissolution,the… — 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
