"A poem is true if it hangs together.……" — E. M. Forster
"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
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350 Quotes by E. M. Forster
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Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for…
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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at…
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling,…
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let…
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so…
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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or…
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an…
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which…
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This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of…
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million…
— Diane Ackerman
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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
— Francis Bacon
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My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what…
— Chris Brown
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The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.
— Robert Browning
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She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever.
— Jeff Buckley
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The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
— Willa Cather
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Everything hangs on one's thinking.
— Seneca the Younger
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An essential part of any successful action on the part of the United States is an understanding on the part…
— George C. Marshall
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All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power…
— Frank Chodorov
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Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's…
— George Bernard Shaw
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A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.
— George Santayana
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