Mr. Charlie

All that we know is nothing,
we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,
unless we are in touch with that which laughs
at all our knowing.

- D H Lawrence




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.

- D H Lawrence




Nobody knows you.
You don't know yourself.
And I, who am half in love with you,
What am I in love with?
My own imaginings?

- D H Lawrence



When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego,
and when we escape like squirrels turning in the
cages of our personality
and get into the forests again,
we shall shiver with cold and fright
but things will happen to us
so that we don't know ourselves.

Cool, unlying life will rush in,
and passion will make our bodies taut with power,
we shall stamp our feet with new power
and old things will fall down,
we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like
burnt paper.

- D H Lawrence



There is nothing to save, now all is lost,
but a tiny core of stillness in the heart
like the eye of a violet.

- D H Lawrence



When I hear modern people complain of being lonely
then I know what has happened.
They have lost the cosmos.

- D H Lawrence




We are all liars, because
The truth of yesterday
becomes a lie tomorrow,
Whereas letters are fixed,
and we live by the letter of truth.
The love I feel for my friend, this year,
is different from the love I felt last year.
If it were not so, it would be a lie.
Yet we reiterate love! love! love!
as if it were a coin with fixed value
instead of a flower that dies, and opens a different bud.

- D H Lawrence




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.
Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth;
but malice is the wisdom of our blood

- D H Lawrence




I am not sure I would always fight for my life.
Life might not be worth fighting for.

I am not sure I would always fight for my wife.
A wife isn't always worth fighting for.

Nor my children, nor my country, nor my fellow-men.
It all deprnds whether I found them worth fighting for.

The only thing men invariably fight for
Is their money. But I doubt if I'd fight for mine, anyhow
not to shed a lot of blood over it.

Yet one thing I do fight for, tooth and nail, all the time.
And that is my bit of inward peace, where I am at one
with myself.

And I must say, I am often worsted.

- D H Lawrence




I have travelled, and looked at the world, and loved it.
Now I don't want to look at the world anymore,
there seems nothing there.
In not-looking, and in not-seeing
comes a new strength
and undeniable new gods share their life with us, when we cease to see.

- D H Lawrence




Oh seekers, when you leave off seeking
you will realise there was never anything to seek for.

You were only seeking to lose something, not to find something, when you went forth so vigorously in search.

- D H Lawrence




O are you tangled up in yourself
poor little man, poor little man!

Is she tangled up in herself then
poor woman, poor woman!

But beware!
They are like cats with unclean claws, tangled up in nets,
and if you try to get them out
they will tear you terribly, and give you blood-poisoning.

- D H Lawrence