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

E. M. Forster · Poetry

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E. M. Forster

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

Death

E. M. Forster

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

Life

E. M. Forster

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

Death

E. M. Forster

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

Faith