“I never saw a wild thing
Sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself.”

—  D.H. Lawrence

Self-Pity (1929)
Source: The Complete Poems

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English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary crit… 1885–1930

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