The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
E. M. FORSTERThe emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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