A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. -E. M. Forster Poetry
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars. -E. M. Forster Mom
The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art. -E. M. Forster Art
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. -E. M. Forster Freedom
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? -E. M. Forster Good
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. -E. M. Forster Art
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? -E. M. Forster Nature
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake. -E. M. Forster Art
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. -E. M. Forster Life
