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At the very beginning Lawrence belonged to a different order of being from the literary writers of his day. In 1912 he said: “I worship Christ, I worship Jehovah, I worship Pan, I worship Aphrodite. But I do not worship hands nailed and running with blood upon a cross, nor licentiousness, nor lust. I want them all, all the gods. They are all God. But I must serve in real love. If I take my whole passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in turn loves me, that is how I serve God. And my hymn and my game of joy is my work. All of which I read in …”
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Rexroth, K. (1990). Poetry, Regeneration and D. H. Lawrence. In: Banerjee, A. (eds) D. H. Lawrence’s Poetry: Demon Liberated. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11067-4_27
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