D. H. Lawrence

As unemployment in Washington State reached an all-time high in the late 1980s, Ray’s Bellingham family’s financial crises and urgent appeals to him continued, but middle-aged Ray and Maryann had “come through” to borrow a phrase from D. H. Lawrence the highs and lows of their long love affair and found a way to be friends.

Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009

“It’s by this guy called D. H. Lawrence and it’s about a posh lady who falls for her gardener.”

Mates, Dates: Besties: Cathy Hopkins 2002

You can start out with the idea that you want to write a memoir and it becomes a book about D. H. Lawrence.

Roger Housden: Why Writing Is a Foolish Pleasure Roger Housden 2011

You can start out with the idea that you want to write a memoir and it becomes a book about D. H. Lawrence.

Roger Housden: Why Writing Is a Foolish Pleasure Roger Housden 2011

You can start out with the idea that you want to write a memoir and it becomes a book about D. H. Lawrence.

Roger Housden: Why Writing Is a Foolish Pleasure Roger Housden 2011

You can start out with the idea that you want to write a memoir and it becomes a book about D. H. Lawrence.

Roger Housden: Why Writing Is a Foolish Pleasure Roger Housden 2011

D. H. Lawrence had strength and interest and a hot, dark, rich power, but Miss Macaulay criticised him for his obsession with sexual relationships, an obsession sufficient to prevent him from being really great.

From the archive, 19 January 1929: Modern novelists under attack 2012

Toward the end of the D. H. Lawrence poem quoted above, he uses the phrase “wonderment organizing itself,” which seems another apt description of what poetry does, and what it provides that we need.

The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

“It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness had grown together in a tangled mass, till they could crowd no more, and the plant was dying,” D. H. Lawrence wrote of the doomed alliance of Clifford and Lady Chatterley.

THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB LAURIE ABRAHAM 2010

Toward the end of the D. H. Lawrence poem quoted above, he uses the phrase “wonderment organizing itself,” which seems another apt description of what poetry does, and what it provides that we need.

The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010