Poems List

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
[Pjeople in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist wishes; their inner as well as their outer life can be exposed.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

 

Aspects of the Novel (1927)

As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I E. M.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
They go forth with well-developed bodies, developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart-not a cold one.
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them.
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