"Men yearn for poetry though they may not……" — E. M. Forster
"Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form."
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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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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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The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the…
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The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic…
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In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright…
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The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.
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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
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