#oral

Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going. ↗

— James Laughlin

#beautiful #beautiful things #belong #book #concrete

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#disguise #entirely #faculty #man #moral

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#end #garden #gate #hyena #morality

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#blood #changes #didactic #essential #function

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#behave #courtesy #find #gentleness #heart

I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#ethically #i #i think #morally #scotland

If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. ' ↗

— Annie Lennox

#feminist #free #i #inherited #morally

Sincerity is moral truth. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#sincerity #truth

People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#areas #cheat #cheats #day #does

You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.' ↗

— Damian Lewis

#dysfunctional #film #i #job #just