E. M. Forster

"The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art."

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

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

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

"Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch."

"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

"I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual."

"Love is always being given where it is not required."

"One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions."

"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death."

"The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal."

"The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch."

"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."