E. M. Forster Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

  E. M. Forster

  Art, Believe, Order

  1951 Two Cheers for Democracy,'Art for Art's Sake'.

• At the moment they vanished they were everywhere, the cool benediction of the night descended, the stars sparkled, and the whole universe was a hill.

  E. M. Forster

  Stars, Night, Hills

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.191, RosettaBooks

• Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is the wriggle.

  E. M. Forster

  Stars, Failure, Fighting

• If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.

  E. M. Forster

  Stories, Ifs, Universe

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.87, RosettaBooks

• Ulysses ... is a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud, an inverted Victorianism, an attempt to make crossness and dirt succeed where sweetness and light failed, a simplification of the human character in the interests of Hell.

  E. M. Forster

  Dog, Character, Light

  'Aspects of the Novel' (1927) ch. 6 (on James Joyce's 'Ulysses')

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