D. H. Lawrence Quotes

It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics.... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose in cruelty against themselves, admitting that they are pandering to, and despising, the lower self.

D. H. Lawrence

• Poetry
• Self
• Admitting

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• There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.

  

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• We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

  

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• I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
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• The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me.

  

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• A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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• Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

  

  Walter Pater
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• It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

  

  Queen Christina
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• Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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• Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.

  

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• If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.

  

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• A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

  

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• You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.

  

  Samantha Morton
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• Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.

  

  Octavio Paz
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• Poetry is the deification of reality.

  

  Edith Sitwell
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• I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.

  

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• If there is anything about your 'self' of which you can be sure, it is that it is anchored in your own body and yours alone. The person you experience as 'you' is here and now and nowhere else.

  

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• I would say both Western psychology and Eastern paths would recognize that we get caught up in feeling like a separate self and an unworthy self.

  

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• I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.

  

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• We discovered we are both pleasantly furious half of the time,When we're not just toeing the line.

  

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• Maybe it's all in my head. feel like leaving but I don't really want toBut I feel so misled, a kiss through the phone just won't do, no'Cause from my point of view, I gotta saySomething 'bout you, so tell me, babySomewhere down the road I think you lost it allNow it's all in my head

  

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• You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you.

  

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• My goal is to put out an album with every song being an original composition of mine. I want the credits to read, 'All songs written by Gregory L. Allman' - that is something I really want to make happen.

  

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• It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics.... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose in cruelty against themselves, admitting that they are pandering to, and despising, the lower self.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Poetry
  • Self
  • Admitting