M. Forster
M. Forster
character society difficult
It is devilish difficult to criticise society & also create human beings.
power
How few writers can prostitute all their powers!
sex character names
The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shallcome later), gives them names and sex, assigns them plausible gestures, and causes them to speak by the use of inverted commas, and perhaps to behave consistently.
character literature may
We may divide characters into flat and round.
life sex men
Not only in sex, but in all things men have moved blindly, have evolved out of slime to dissolve into it when this accident of consequences is over.
voice waiting poetry
England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.
believe men class
I distrust great men.... I believe in aristocracy, though. Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret understanding between them when they meet.... They are sensitive for others as well as for themselves, they are considerate without being fussy, their pluck is not swankiness but the power to endure and they can take a joke.
guarantees doe masterpiece
Freedom does not guarantee masterpieces.
love love-is literature
Love is always being given where it is not required.
men hands spy
I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.
spirit culinary porridge
...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.
art people naked
But why I cry out against Rubens is because he painted undressed people instead of naked ones.
form values
Without form, the sensitiveness vanishes.
fishing flying literature
English literature is a flying fish.