When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome. — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
“In the case of Michel Angelo we have an artist who with brush and chisel portrayed literally thousands of human forms; but with this… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
“It would seem probable that the attachment of such a one is of a tender and profound character; indeed, it is possible that in… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought. — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
“Anyhow, with their extraordinary gift for, and experience in, affairs of the heart from the double point of view, both of the man and… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me. — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
“So that eternal love, in love's fresh case, Weighs not the dust and injury of age;” — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
“[A]s people are beginning to see that the sexes form in a certain sense a continuous group, so they are beginning to see that… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day. — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society. — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
