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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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is...

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is...

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none...

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none...

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise...

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise...

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humor.

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humor.

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

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...

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

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

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

No one is India.

No one is India.

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a...

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a...

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must...

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must...

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to...

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to...

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which...

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which...

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in...

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in...

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.