D. H. Lawrence

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it. ”

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true. ”

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one. ”

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts. ”

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack. ”

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 fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. ”

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 essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind. ”

One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes. ”