E. M. Forster

Quotes

• “In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious and draws u...”
• “Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling of fightin...”
• “We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the pres...”
• “It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can int...”
• “Our life on earth is and ought to be material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and ca...”
• “An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to...”
• “The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.”
• “One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.”
• “Faith to my mind is a stiffening process a sort of mental starch.”
• “Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.”
• “The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.”
• “Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.”
• “Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.”
• “How can I know what I think till I see what I say?”
• “Nonsense and beauty have close connections.”