But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
E. M. FORSTERBut Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
E. M. FORSTERThe 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. FORSTERThink before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
E. M. FORSTERBut the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
E. M. FORSTERThe kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
E. M. FORSTERHuman relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
E. M. FORSTERThere is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
E. M. FORSTEROne of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
E. M. FORSTERThe final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
E. M. FORSTERI cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
E. M. FORSTER… there are shadows because there are hills.
E. M. FORSTERWe must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
E. M. FORSTERMistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
E. M. FORSTERWhen 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.
E. M. FORSTERNonsense and beauty have close connections.
E. M. FORSTERThere are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
E. M. FORSTER