E. M. Forster Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

  E. M. Forster

  Stars, Wind, Tree

  E.M. Forster (2015). “Howard's End”, p.129, Xist Publishing

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

  E. M. Forster

  Mother, War, Grateful

  E. M. Forster (2016). “Howards End: England Literature”, p.75, 谷月社

• Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

  E. M. Forster

  Practice, Literature, Life Is

  E.M. Forster (2016). “A Room With a View (Diversion Classics)”, p.158, Diversion Books

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

  E. M. Forster

  Death, Men, Ideas

  E.M. Forster “Howards End”, Рипол Классик

• 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

  Reading, Men, Literature

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

• Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.

  E. M. Forster

  Book, Interesting, Literature

  'A Passage to India' (1924) ch. 14

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  E. M. Forster

  Literature, Reverence

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

• One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

  E. M. Forster

  Money, Evil, Temptation

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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

  E. M. Forster

  Poetry, Together, Literature

  Two Cheers for Democracy "Anonymity: An Enquiry" (1951)

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

  E. M. Forster

  People, Society, Literature

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

• I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Literature, Holiness

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.121, RosettaBooks

• Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.

  E. M. Forster

  Liking Someone, Literature, Reason

  E.M. Forster (2016). “A Room With a View (Diversion Classics)”, p.83, Diversion Books

• History develops, art stands still.

  E. M. Forster

  Art, History, Literature

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.39, RosettaBooks

• Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

  E. M. Forster

  Thinking, Criticism, Literature

  Two Cheers for Democracy (1951) "Raison d'ˆtre of Criticism"

• How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

  E. M. Forster

  Writing, Thinking, Literature

• Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

  E. M. Forster

  Beauty, Connections, Literature

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.223, Delphi Classics

• So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

  E. M. Forster

  Cheer, Democracies Have, Two

  Two Cheers for Democracy "What I Believe" (1951)

• Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Literature, Charm

  "The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929-1960: A Selected Edition". Book by Edward Morgan Forster, p. 448, 2008.

• Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

  E. M. Forster

  Life, Joy, Preparation

  'Howards End' (1910) ch. 7

• Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

  E. M. Forster

  Land, People, Literature

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.16, Delphi Classics

• The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon, not even a Pisgah. It is most distinctly one of the moister areas of literature - irrigated by a hundred rills and occasionally degenerating into a swamp. I do not wonder that the poets despise it, though they sometimes find themselves in it by accident. And I am not surprised at the annoyance of the historians when by accident it finds itself among them.

  E. M. Forster

  Writing, Mountain, Literature

• Love is always being given where it is not required.

  E. M. Forster

  Love, Love Is, Literature

  Selected Letters: Letter 137, to Syed Ross Masood, December 5, 1914.

• Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

  E. M. Forster

  Love, Mean, People

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

• Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

  E. M. Forster

  Rubbish, Literature, Logic

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.152, RosettaBooks

• The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.

  E. M. Forster

  Husband, Literature, Want

  E.M. Forster (2015). “Howard's End”, p.206, Xist Publishing

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