D. H. Lawrence Quotes About Gold

Quotes about: Gold

• Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Land, Sorrow, Gold

  D. H. Lawrence (1995). “The Plumed Serpent”, p.160, Wordsworth Editions

• Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Winning, Men, Dragons

  D. H. Lawrence (1956). “The Virgin and the Gipsy”

• Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Strong, Tragedy, Gold

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.248, Cambridge University Press

• Along the avenue of cypresses,
  All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices
  Of linen, go the chanting choristers,
  The priests in gold and black, the villagers. . . .

  D. H. Lawrence

  Black, Gold, Cypresses

  'Giorno dei Morti' (1917)

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