All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between them by the attempt.
E.M. Forster
Invitations, Heaven, Unity, Men, Divine Will, Human Division
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“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.” E.M. Forster
Love, Connection, Human Experience, Emotional Depth, Inner Landscape, Complexity
E.M. Forster Love, Connection, Human Experience, Emotional Depth, Inner Landscape, Complexity“At the moment they vanished they were everywhere, the cool benediction of the night descended, the stars sparkled, and the whole universe was a hill.” E.M. Forster
Night, Stars, Universe, Benediction, Cosmic Beauty, Ephemeral Moment
E.M. Forster Night, Stars, Universe, Benediction, Cosmic Beauty, Ephemeral Moment“Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.” E.M. Forster
Triviality, Maurice, Touch, Imperfect, Two, Love
E.M. Forster Triviality, Maurice, Touch, Imperfect, Two, Love“The present flowed by them like a stream. The tree rustled. It had made music before they were born, and would continue after their deaths, but its song was of the moment. The moment had passed. The tree rustled again. Their senses were sharpened, and they seemed to apprehend life. Life passed. The tree rustled again.” E.M. Forster
Perception, Nature, Time, Human Experience, Inner Landscape, Complexity
E.M. Forster Perception, Nature, Time, Human Experience, Inner Landscape, Complexity“It is the starved imagination, not the well nourished, that is afraid.” E.M. Forster
Creative Fear, Imagination Growth, Mental Nourishment, Imagination, Afraid, Nourished
E.M. Forster Creative Fear, Imagination Growth, Mental Nourishment, Imagination, Afraid, Nourished“Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.” E.M. Forster
Cycles, Endless Pursuit, Metaphysical Thought, Inner Journey, Existentialism, Limitation
E.M. Forster Cycles, Endless Pursuit, Metaphysical Thought, Inner Journey, Existentialism, Limitation“Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.” E.M. Forster
Love, Force, Public, Private, Emotional Power, Social Inefficacy
E.M. Forster Love, Force, Public, Private, Emotional Power, Social Inefficacy“The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.” E.M. Forster
Society, Complexity, Human Nature, Social Reflection, Inner Landscape, Perception
E.M. Forster Society, Complexity, Human Nature, Social Reflection, Inner Landscape, Perception“But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.” E.M. Forster
Immortality, Misunderstanding, Death, Memory, Human Perception, Emotional Legacy
E.M. Forster Immortality, Misunderstanding, Death, Memory, Human Perception, Emotional Legacy“Let us discuss why poetry has lost the power of making men brave.” E.M. Forster
Poetic Strength, Inspiration, Emotional Courage, Creative Expression, Transformation, Reflection
E.M. Forster Poetic Strength, Inspiration, Emotional Courage, Creative Expression, Transformation, Reflection“But it is sometimes as difficult to lose one’s temper as it is difficult at other times to keep it.” E.M. Forster
Temper, Difficulty, Control, Emotion, Patience, Self-Discipline
E.M. Forster Temper, Difficulty, Control, Emotion, Patience, Self-Discipline“The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The commonplace person begins to play, and shoots into the empyrean without effort, whilst we look up, marvelling how he has escaped us, and thinking how we could worship him and love him, would he but translate his visions into human words, and his experiences into human actions. Perhaps he cannot; certainly he does not, or does so very seldom.” E.M. Forster
Kingdom, Music, World, Rejected, Creative Transcendence, Artistic Isolation
E.M. Forster Kingdom, Music, World, Rejected, Creative Transcendence, Artistic Isolation“The feudal ownership of land did bring dignity, whereas the modern ownership of movables is reducing us again to a nomadic horde. We are reverting to the civilisation of luggage, and historians of the future will note how the middle classes accreted possessions without taking root in the earth, and may find in this the secret of their imaginative poverty.” E.M. Forster
Modern Nomadism, Luggage Civilization, Possession’s Curse, Ownership, Luggage, Poverty
E.M. Forster Modern Nomadism, Luggage Civilization, Possession’s Curse, Ownership, Luggage, Poverty“Gray clouds were charging across tissues of white, which stretched and shredded and tore slowly, until through their final layers there gleamed a hint of the disappearing blue. Summer was retreating. The wind roared, the trees groaned, yet the noise seemed insufficient for those vast operations in heaven. The weather was breaking up, breaking, broken, and it is a sense of the fit rather than of the supernatural that equips such crises with the salvos of angelic artillery.” E.M. Forster
Natural Transition, Summer Retreat, Weather Metaphor, Transformation, Human Struggle, Emotional Turmoil
E.M. Forster Natural Transition, Summer Retreat, Weather Metaphor, Transformation, Human Struggle, Emotional Turmoil“No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.” E.M. Forster
Achievement, Mastery, Dedication, Expertise, Success, Intellectual Pursuit
E.M. Forster Achievement, Mastery, Dedication, Expertise, Success, Intellectual Pursuit“It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.” E.M. Forster
Foolishness, Agreement, Decisions, Irony, Contradictions, Self-awareness
E.M. Forster Foolishness, Agreement, Decisions, Irony, Contradictions, Self-awareness“Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.” E.M. Forster
Passion, Sanity, Love, Understanding, Emotional Connection, Romantic Realism
E.M. Forster Passion, Sanity, Love, Understanding, Emotional Connection, Romantic Realism“O for the night that was ending, for the sleep and the wakefulness, the toughness and tenderness mixed, the sweet temper, the safety in darkness. Would such a night ever return?” E.M. Forster
Nostalgia, Darkness, Vulnerability, Human Experience, Emotional Depth, Inner Reflection
E.M. Forster Nostalgia, Darkness, Vulnerability, Human Experience, Emotional Depth, Inner Reflection