At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
E. M. ForsterThe sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can't touch - like England 's grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
E. M. ForsterHe doesn't want you to be real, and to think and to live. He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.
E. M. ForsterAmerica is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
E. M. Forster