“Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for years. And for this reason, some old things are lovely warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them” -D.H.Lawrence
A friend sent me the quote above so I wanted to add it here in full excerpt from D.H. Lawrence’s “The Rainbow”—
“A thing that is beautiful, a thing that is alive, is a thing that has a life of its own, that has been made with love, and that keeps its life for ever. A thing that is beautiful and has life, is full of human warmth. That warmth is part of its beauty. Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into, are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for years. And for this reason, some old things are lovely, warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.”
“It is not that they are more beautiful than new things. They are just more lovely, warmer than new things. They are things that live, they are things that have a soul.”
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