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The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

D. H. Lawrence
Water, Mind, Glitter
D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.149, Cambridge University Press

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

D. H. Lawrence
Light, Water, Democracy
D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.244, Cambridge University Press

We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The way is through daily ritual, andis an affair of the individual and the household, a ritual of dawn and noon and sunset, the ritual of the kindling fire and pouring water, the ritual of the first breath, and the last.

D. H. Lawrence
Sunset, Fire, Water

I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.

D. H. Lawrence
Men, Air, Water
D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3924, Delphi Classics

A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.

D. H. Lawrence
Snakes, Water, Hot
'Snake' (1923)

She let him come further, his lips came and surging, surging, soft, oh soft, yet on, like the powerful surge of water, irresistible, till with a little blind cry, she broke away.

D. H. Lawrence
Powerful, Water, Sensual
D. H. Lawrence, Mark Kinkead-Weekes (2002). “The Rainbow”, p.278, Cambridge University Press

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