Things men¹ have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years.
And for this reason, some old things are lovely, warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.

—DH Lawrence.

1. Of course this quote by DH Lawrence(1885–1930) is from another time and another position….and women’s hands, and anyones hands for that matter, might be equally wakened. Or not. ↩︎