Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
E. M. Forster
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
E. M. Forster
Age: 91 †
Born: 1879
Born: January 1
Died: 1970
Died: June 7
Biographer
Essayist
Librettist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
London
England
Edward Morgan Forster
E Forster
EM Forster
World
Rejected
Kingdom
Kingdoms
Intellect
Accept
Accepting
Culture
Breeding
Music
Alike
More quotes by E. M. Forster
England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.
E. M. Forster
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
E. M. Forster
Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?
E. M. Forster
Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion.
E. M. Forster
No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.
E. M. Forster
A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.
E. M. Forster
Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.
E. M. Forster
Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
E. M. Forster
Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
E. M. Forster
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
E. M. Forster
She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.
E. M. Forster
When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
E. M. Forster
This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.
E. M. Forster
It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
E. M. Forster
There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.
E. M. Forster
She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour.
E. M. Forster
Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.
E. M. Forster
While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea
E. M. Forster
One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
E. M. Forster
Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer
E. M. Forster
