E. M. Forster
“We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance.”
“One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.”
“The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready.”
“Tolerance is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet.”
“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.”
“A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.”
“Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think is creation's.”
“Music is the deepest of the arts and deep beneath the arts.”
“It isn't possible to love and to part. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.”
“Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.”
“Death destroys a man: the idea of death saves him.”
“Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.”
“As for my politics, you will have guessed that I am not a Fascist.”
“What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it.”
“Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think is creation’s.”
“The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready.”
“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.”
“A humanist has four leading characteristics—curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.”
“Tolerance, good temper and sympathy—they are what matter really.”
“We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance.”