Book Quote 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.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— D. H. Lawrence

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.…

— D. H. Lawrence

It is our business to go as we are impelled.

— D. H. Lawrence

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

— 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.

— D. H. Lawrence

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

— D. H. Lawrence