the grey Puritan

'So we can dismiss the idea that sex appeal in art is pornography. It may be so to the grey Puritan, but the grey Puritan is a sick man, soul and body sick, so why should we bother about his hallucinations''

'D.H. Lawrence, Pornography and Obscenity, This Quarter (Paris), 1929. From The Great Quotations, compiled by George Seldes, 1960.