From Lady Chatterley's Lover:
It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.
From Complete Poems:
Elemental
Why don't people leave off being lovable
or thinking they are lovable, or wanting to be lovable,
and be a bit elemental instead?
Since man is made up of the elements
fire, and rain, and air, and live loam
and none of these is lovable
but elemental,
man is lop-sided on the side of the angels.
I wish men would get back their balance
among the elements
and be a bit more fiery, as incapable of telling lies
as fire is.
I wish they'd be true to their own variation
as water is,
which goes through all the stages of steam
and stream and ice
without losing its head.
I am sick of lovable people,
somehow they are a lie.
Books by Lawrence at Powell's Books
