M. Forster
M. Forster
romantic possible-love room-with-a-view
It isn't possible to love and to part.
inspirational education running
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
book reading long
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.
remembered
When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else.
reading men literature
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
emotional civilization tolerance
The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
spring fighting
Don't go fighting against the Spring.
love college oxford
Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
children class literature
One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
romantic room-with-a-view muddle
You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
speak deserted
Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.
art thinking race
Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which 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. It is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.
writing ideas novelists
Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.
character perfect patterns
Axiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise.