How sure I feel, how warm and strong and happy For the future! How sure the future is within me; I am like a seed with a perfect flower enclosed.
D. H. LawrenceArt- speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day and that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day, and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today.
D. H. LawrenceNot that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.
D. H. LawrenceBut, especially in love, only counterfeit emotions exist nowadays. We have all been taught to mistrust everybody emotionally, from parents downwards, or upwards. Donโt trust anybody with your real emotions: if youโve got any: that is the slogan of today. Trust them with your money, even, but never with your feelings. They are bound to trample on them.
D. H. Lawrence