D.H. Lawrence quotes

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The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser ...
Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don't get on very well with the world.
Europe is, perhaps, the least worn-out of the continents, because it is the most lived in. A place that is lived in lives.
Lad, thou hast gotten a child in me,
Laddie, a man thou'lt ha'e to be,
Yea, though I'm sorry for thee.
At a wavering instant the swallows gave way to bats
By the Ponte Vecchio . . .
Changing guard.
A circle swoop, and a quick parabola under the bridge arches
Where light pushes through;
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Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep;
And disgustingly upside down.
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Persephone herself is but a voice
or a darkness invisible enfolded in the deeper dark
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Reach me a gentian, give me a torch!
let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of this flower
Man is a thought-adventurer.
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