cow-form

Updated: July 3, 2026

And in each case a darkly vital presence. Now horns and squareness and a long thin ox-tail, these are the fearful and wonderful elements of the cow-form, which the dynamic soul perfectly perceives. The ideal-image is just outside nature, for a child something false. In a picture, a child wants elemental recognition, and not correctness or expression, or least of all, what we call understanding.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence - Fantasia of the Unconscious