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. FORSTERLife is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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