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

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

E. M. Forster
Poetry, Together, Literature
Two Cheers for Democracy "Anonymity: An Enquiry" (1951)

Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form.

E. M. Forster
Men, August, Poetry
E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.211, RosettaBooks

England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.

E. M. Forster
Voice, Poetry, Waiting
E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.733, Delphi Classics

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