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
Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong .
There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.
It isn't possible to love and to part.
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.
Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.
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.
You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
Life is like a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the intrument as you go along
When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else.