E.M. Forster Quote
I only know what it is that's wrong with him; not why it is.And what is it? asked Lucy fearfully, expecting some harrowing tale.The old trouble; things won't fit.What things?The things of the universe. It's quite true. They don't.Oh Mr. Emerson, whatever do you mean?In his ordinary voice, so that she scarcely realized he was quoting poetry, he said: 'From far, from eve and morning, And yon twelve-winded sky, The stuff of life to knit me Blew hither: here am I.George and I both know this, but why does it distress him? We know that we come from the winds, and that we shall return to them; that all of life is perhaps a knot, a tangle, a blemish in the eternal smoothness. But why should this make us unhappy? Let us rather love one another, and work and rejoice. I don't believe in this world of sorrow.
I only know what it is that's wrong with him; not why it is.And what is it? asked Lucy fearfully, expecting some harrowing tale.The old trouble; things won't fit.What things?The things of the universe. It's quite true. They don't.Oh Mr. Emerson, whatever do you mean?In his ordinary voice, so that she scarcely realized he was quoting poetry, he said: 'From far, from eve and morning, And yon twelve-winded sky, The stuff of life to knit me Blew hither: here am I.George and I both know this, but why does it distress him? We know that we come from the winds, and that we shall return to them; that all of life is perhaps a knot, a tangle, a blemish in the eternal smoothness. But why should this make us unhappy? Let us rather love one another, and work and rejoice. I don't believe in this world of sorrow.
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About E.M. Forster
He also wrote numerous short stories, essays, speeches and broadcasts, as well as a limited number of biographies and some pageant plays. He also co-authored the opera Billy Budd (1951). Today, he is considered one of the most successful of the Edwardian era English novelists.
After attending Tonbridge School he studied history and classics at King's College, Cambridge, where he met fellow future writers such as Lytton Strachey and Leonard Woolf. He then travelled throughout Europe before publishing his first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread, in 1905.
Many of his novels examine class difference and hypocrisy. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 22 separate years.