Edward Carpenter

Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just…

— Edward Carpenter

With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.

— Edward Carpenter

“In the case of Michel Angelo we have an artist who with brush and chisel portrayed literally thousands of human forms; but…

— Edward Carpenter

“It would seem probable that the attachment of such a one is of a tender and profound character; indeed, it is possible…

— Edward Carpenter

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

— Edward Carpenter

“Anyhow, with their extraordinary gift for, and experience in, affairs of the heart from the double point of view, both of the…

— Edward Carpenter

I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me.

— Edward Carpenter

“So that eternal love, in love's fresh case, Weighs not the dust and injury of age;”

— Edward Carpenter

IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before…

— Edward Carpenter

“[A]s people are beginning to see that the sexes form in a certain sense a continuous group, so they are beginning to…

— Edward Carpenter

We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.

— Edward Carpenter

Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society.

— Edward Carpenter

The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden.

— Edward Carpenter

I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was…

— Edward Carpenter

Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts…

— Edward Carpenter

What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No,…

— Edward Carpenter

Remember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of Eden. Only the heterosexual couple was expelled.

— Edward Carpenter

IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

— Edward Carpenter

Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most…

— Edward Carpenter

And where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds came to listen with serious and sympathetic mien.

— Edward Carpenter

“Homosexual,' generally used in scientific works is of course a bastard word. 'Homogenic' has been suggested, as being from two roots, both…

— Edward Carpenter

My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.

— Edward Carpenter

“That men of this kind despise women, though a not uncommon belief, is one which hardly appears to be justified. Indeed, though…

— Edward Carpenter

For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of…

— Edward Carpenter

The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he…

— Edward Carpenter