E.M. Forster

E.M. Forster

WRITER

E.M. Forster was born on January 1, 1879 in London, England as Edward Morgan Forster. He was a writer, known for Howards End (1992), A Room with a View (1985) and The Machine Stops (2009). He died on June 7, 1970 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England.

  • When was
    E.M. Forster born?

    E.M. Forster was born on Wednesday, January 1, 1879

  • Where was
    E.M. Forster born?

    E.M. Forster was born in London, England, UK

  • How old was
    E.M. Forster when they died?

    E.M. Forster was 92

  • When did E.M. Forster die?

    E.M. Forster died on
    Sunday, June 7, 1970


Best Quotes

  • We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
  • A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.
  • A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. Poetry
  • Another distinguished critic has agreed with Gide--that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her niece of being illogical. For some time she could not be brought to understand what logic was, and when she grasped its true nature she was not so much angry as contemptuous. 'Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!' she exclaimed. 'How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?' Her nieces, educated young women, thought that she was pass
  • Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.
  • Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. Faith
  • As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.
  • Oxford is -- Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
  • 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.
  • Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.

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