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. FORSTERIt makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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We move between two darknesses.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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