D.H. Lawrence: The Twighlight of the Soul

Written on 01/29/2026
Poetic Outlaws

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Art: Justin Escourt

There is twilight in our souls, neither light nor dark. The light must draw itself together in purity, the dark must stand on the other hand; they must be two complete in opposition, neither one partaking of the other, but each single in its own stead.

— D.H. Lawrence

Sappho leaped off into the sea of death.

But this is easy.

Who dares leap off from the old world into the inception of the new? Who dares give himself to the tide of living peace?

Many have gone in the tide of death.

Who dares leap into the tide of new life?

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