There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

The Latin inscription on his tombstone is from an ode by Horace and reads: Omnes eodem cogimur "We are all driven to the same end" (i. Lawrence through this connection. By then he had also publiNorman Douglasd his first piece on the subject of southern Italy.

For the New Zealand politician see Norman Douglas (New Zealand)
George Norman Douglas (8 December 1868 – 7 February 1952) was a British writer now best known for his 1917 novel South Wind.