E. M. Forster

“England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.”

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

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

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

“One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.”

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

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