Poetry Quote by D.H. Lawrence — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and the gods grow old along with the men that made them... But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.”

“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.”

“It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if she adored him too much, then she would lose herself, become effaced, and she did not want to be effaced, a slave, like a savage woman. She must not become a slave. She feared her adoration, yet she would not at once fight against it.”

““Life is ours to be spent, not to”

“For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”

“The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.”

“I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves,”

“Must beauty blossom, rooted in decay,”

“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.”

“Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.”

“The profoundest of all sensualities”

“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,”