E M Forster Quotes (27 quotations)
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1. A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. - E M Forster
2. Because he once wrote, We must love one another or die, he can command me to follow him. - E M Forster
3. But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable. - E M Forster
4. Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. - E M Forster
5. Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful? - E M Forster
6. How can I know what I think till I see what I say? - E M Forster
7. How do I know what I have to say wntil I see what I have said? - E M Forster
8. I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life. - E M Forster
9. I have been racking my brains and can find no reply [to] this very reasonable question. I can only suggest that the fictional part of me dried up. - E M Forster
10. I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our own particular path than we have yet got ourselves. - E M Forster
11. I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave. - E M Forster
12. If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. - E M Forster
13. It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools. - E M Forster
14. It is the one orderly product our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths; it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden the best evidence we can give of our dignity. - E M Forster
15. Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice... - E M Forster
16. Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value. - E M Forster
17. Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. - E M Forster
18. The crime of suicide lies in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind. - E M Forster
19. The 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 Forster
20. The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. - E M Forster
21. They go forth with well-developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart-not a cold one. The difference is important. - E M Forster
22. This opera is my Nunc Dimittis, in that it dismisses me peacefully and convinces me I have achieved. - E M Forster
23. 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. - E M Forster
24. We 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 Forster
25. What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. - E M Forster
2. Because he once wrote, We must love one another or die, he can command me to follow him. - E M Forster
3. But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable. - E M Forster
4. Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. - E M Forster
5. Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful? - E M Forster
6. How can I know what I think till I see what I say? - E M Forster
7. How do I know what I have to say wntil I see what I have said? - E M Forster
8. I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life. - E M Forster
9. I have been racking my brains and can find no reply [to] this very reasonable question. I can only suggest that the fictional part of me dried up. - E M Forster
10. I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our own particular path than we have yet got ourselves. - E M Forster
11. I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave. - E M Forster
12. If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. - E M Forster
13. It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools. - E M Forster
14. It is the one orderly product our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths; it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden the best evidence we can give of our dignity. - E M Forster
15. Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice... - E M Forster
16. Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value. - E M Forster
17. Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. - E M Forster
18. The crime of suicide lies in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind. - E M Forster
19. The 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 Forster
20. The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. - E M Forster
21. They go forth with well-developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart-not a cold one. The difference is important. - E M Forster
22. This opera is my Nunc Dimittis, in that it dismisses me peacefully and convinces me I have achieved. - E M Forster
23. 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. - E M Forster
24. We 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 Forster
25. What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. - E M Forster
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