966 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

Then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.

... The glamour Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance ...

My belief is in the blood and flesh as being wiser than the intellect. The body-unconsciou s is where life bubbles up in us. It is how we know that we are alive, alive to the depths of our souls and in touch somewhere with the vivid reaches of the cosmos.

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.

Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.

The elephant, the huge old beast, is slow to mate

Take nothing, to say: I have it! For you can possess nothing, not even peace.

I think more of a bird with broad wings flying and lapsing through the air, than anything, when I think of metre.