Monday, May 25, 2009

What a pity

"What a pity, when a man looks at himself in a glass he doesn't bark at himself, like a dog does, or fluff up in indignant fury, like a cat! What a pity he sees himself so wonderful, a little lower than the angels! and so  interesting!"[1]


[1] DH Lawrence ‘Man’s Image’ Collected Poems (Harmondsworth, 1993) p 528.

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