966 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

If it be not true to me, What care I how true it be.. Though it be not true to thee, It's gay and gospel truth to me..

Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances.

One sheds one's sicknesses in books--repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

Art- speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day and that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day, and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today.

The Spirit of Place [does not] exert its full influence upon a newcomer until the old inhabitant is dead or absorbed. So America.... The moment the last nuclei of Red [Indian] life break up in America, then the white men will have to reckon with the full force of the demon of the continent.

The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

There is no such thing as sin. There is only life and anti-life.

Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving.

I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had.