Quotes of E. M. Forster - somelinesforyou

“ Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake. ”

- E. M. Forster

“ But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable. ”

- E. M. Forster

“ I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave. ”

- E. M. Forster

“ I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave. ”

- E. M. Forster

“ The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. ”

- E. M. Forster

“ It is so difficult at least, I find it difficult to understand people who speak the truth. ”

- E. M. Forster

“ I knew you read the Symposium in the vac," he said in a low voice. Maurice felt uneasy. "Then you understand without me saying more " "How do you mean?" Durham could not wait. People were all around them, but with eyes that had gone intensely blue he whispered, "I love you. ”

- E. M. Forster

“ The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. ”

- E. M. Forster

“ A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned. ”

- E. M. Forster

“ But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear and merge into something else. ”

- E. M. Forster

“ 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

“ 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

“ Adventures do occur, but not punctually. ”

- E. M. Forster

“ It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools. ”

- E. M. Forster

“ Money pads the edges of things. ”

- E. M. Forster

“ A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. ”

- E. M. Forster

“ Money pads the edges of things. ”

- E. M. Forster

“ It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die — neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave. ”

- E. M. Forster

“ I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave. ”

- E. M. Forster

“ I hate the idea of causes, and 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

“ In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art. ”

- E. M. Forster

“ I hate the idea of causes, and 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

“ 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

“ I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave. ”

- E. M. Forster

“ Mature as he was, she might yet be able to help him to the building of the rainbow bridge that should connect the prose in us with the passion. Without it we are meaningless fragments, half monks, half beasts, unconnected arches that have never joined into a man… ”

- E. M. Forster

“ I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars. ”

- E. M. Forster

“ Leonard looked at her wondering, and had the sense of great things sweeping out of the shrouded night. But he could not receive them, because his heart was still full of little things. ”

- E. M. Forster

“ In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art. ”

- E. M. Forster

“ It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools. ”

- E. M. Forster

“ It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools. ”

- E. M. Forster
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