E. M. Forster's Quotes

E. M. Forster's Quotes 66

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society...

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A...

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

Love is always being given where it is not required.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the...

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in...

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they...

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up...

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the...

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two...

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is...

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits...

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should...

History develops, art stands still.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to...

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only...

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