A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

Quote by E M Forster

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Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the...

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the...

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to...

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to...

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own...

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own...

I have been racking my brains and can find no reply [to] this very reasonable...

I have been racking my brains and can find no reply [to] this very reasonable...

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass...

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass...

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if...

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if...

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there...

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there...

Ideas are fatal to caste

Ideas are fatal to caste

History develops, art stands still.

History develops, art stands still.

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had...

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had...

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it...

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it...

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are...

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are...

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for....

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for....

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.

We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.