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Letter "E" » E. M. Forster Quotes
«A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.»
Author: E. M. Forster
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
hangs, hang together, poem, points, something else
«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. With it love is born, and alights on the highest curve, glowing against the grey, sober against the fire.»
«Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.»
«Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.»
Author: E. M. Forster
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
assimilation, contain, discovering, ill luck, luck it, savage, the West, tribes
«A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.»
Author: E. M. Forster
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
dubiousness, facade, facing, lake, skyscraper, skyscrapers
«So, Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism»
«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»
Author: E. M. Forster
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Betrayal,
Ideas
| Keywords:
betraying, guts, My Country
«Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!»
«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.»
Author: E. M. Forster
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
labyrinth, labyrinths, lighthouse, lighthouses, middling, sentinel, sentinels, The Lighthouse
«It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.»
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