Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.

Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.

Now the only decent way to get something done is to get it done by somebody who quite likes doing it.

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven.

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking.