Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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For he seemed to me again like a king, Like a king in exile, uncrowned in the underworld, Now due to be crowned again.David Herbert Lawrence
I shall always be a priest of love.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
David Herbert Lawrence
One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
David Herbert Lawrence
The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
David Herbert Lawrence
A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.
David Herbert Lawrence
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