E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster
Edward Morgan Forster OM CHwas an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect ... ". His 1908 novel, A Room with a View, is his most optimistic work, while A Passage to Indiabrought him his greatest success. He was...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 January 1879
Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.
Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.
One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
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.
Like all her friends, I miss her greatly...But...I am sure there is no case for lamentation...Virginia Woolf got through an immense amount of work, she gave acute pleasure in new ways, she pushed the light of the English language a little further against darkness. Those are facts.
Don't go fighting against the Spring.
Human beings have their great chance in the novel.
Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.
A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn't have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows, and in this sense, Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood.
While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.