Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence (1977) (edit title/settings)

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• “Everything that has beauty has a body, and is a body;everything that has being has being in the flesh:and dreams are only drawn from the bodies that are.”

  D.H. Lawrence, "Bodiless God"

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• I count it a misfortune that serious books are exposed in the public market, like slaves exposed naked for sale. But there we are, since we live in an age of mistaken democracy, we must go through with it.

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• There's not a shadow of doubt about it, the First Cause is just unknowable to us, and we'd be sorry if it wasn't.

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• not 'to build a world for you, dear'; but to build up out of his own self and his own belief and his own effort something wonderful.

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• the pure disinterested craving of the human male to make something wonderful, out of his own head and his own self,

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• Sometimes she had periods of tight horror, when it seemed to her that her life would pass away, and be gone, without having been more than this. But she never really accepted it. Her spirit was active, her life like a shoot that is growing steadily, but which has not yet come above ground.

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• even art is utterly dependent on philosophy: or if you prefer it, on a metaphysic.

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• The first business of every faith is to declare its ignorance.

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• when Freud makes sex accountable for everything he as good as makes it accountable for nothing.

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• 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.

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• a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now into the general air.

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• England
• London
• America
• Taos
• Nottingham
• San Gervasio
• Taormina
• Russia

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1. D. H. Lawrence (Author)

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