My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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