Lies About Love

D.H. LawrenceD.H. Lawrence

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We are a liars, because
the truth of yesterday becomes a lie tomorrow,
whereas letters are fixed,
and we live by the letter of truth.
The love I feel for my friend, this year,
is different from the love I felt last year.
If it were not so, it would be a lie.
Yet we reiterate love! love! love!
as if it were a coin with a fixed value
instead of a flower that dies, and opens a different bud.
D.H. Lawrence
About the poet

D.H. Lawrence

1885 - 1930/Male/EnglishA novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter whose works explore the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation, sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity, and instinct.

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