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| David Herbert Lawrence
And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created. Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts. But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more. Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion. Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes. Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth. God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything. God is only a great imaginative experience. I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self. I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd. I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter. I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze. I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. I shall always be a priest of love. If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule. It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral. Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep. 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. Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description. 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. One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul. Only in a novel are all things given full play. Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer. The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection. The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept. The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack. The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up. You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind. |
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