Selected Poems Quotes

“I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Selected Poems

“How this darkness soaks me through and through,”
― D.H. Lawrence, Selected Poems

“The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Selected Essays

“Moby Dick, the Great White Whale, tore off Ahab's leg at the knee, when Ahab was attacking him. Quite right, too. Should have torn off both his legs, and a lot more besides.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Selected Essays

“But one truth does not displace another. Even apparently contradictory truths do not displace one another. Logic is far too coarse to make the subtle distinctions life demands.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Selected Essays