Birthdate: 1. January 1879
Date of death: 7. June 1970
Other names: Е. М. Форстер
Edward Morgan Forster , known as E. M. Forster, was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. Many of his novels examined class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society, notably A Room with a View , Howards End , and A Passage to India , which brought him his greatest success. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 different years.
— E.M. Forster, book A Room with a View
Source: A Room with a View (1908), Ch. 19
Context: It isn’t possible to love and to 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 from experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
— E.M. Forster, book A Room with a View
Source: A Room with a View (1908), Ch. 19
— E.M. Forster, book Where Angels Fear to Tread
Source: Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), Ch. 10
Context: This woman was a goddess to the end. For her no love could be degrading: she stood outside all degradation. This episode, which she thought so sordid, and which was so tragic for him, remained supremely beautiful. To such a height was he lifted, that without regret he could now have told her that he was her worshipper too. But what was the use of telling her? For all the wonderful things had happened.
"Thank you," was all that he permitted himself. "Thank you for everything."
— E.M. Forster, book Howards End
Source: Howards End (1910), Ch. 22
Context: Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.
— E.M. Forster, book A Room with a View
Source: A Room with a View
„She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.“
— E.M. Forster, book Howards End
Source: Howards End
What I Believe (1938)
"Tolerance"
Two Cheers for Democracy (1951)
— E.M. Forster, book Where Angels Fear to Tread
Source: Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), Ch. 7
Letter 137, to Syed Ross Masood, 5 December 1914
Selected Letters (1983-1985)
Letter 216, to Florence Barger, 11 February 1922
Selected Letters (1983-1985)
