Edward Carpenter
Edward Carpenter
Edward Carpenterwas an English socialist poet, philosopher, anthologist, and early LGBT activist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth29 August 1844
building cast contribute earth kingdom links love onward surely towards
For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven.
backing choice decide hundred picked
Making a choice is like backing a horse-in a hundred years, they may decide you picked wrongly.
early establish
Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society.
conscious few grave placed possible present shall though
I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate.
experiment practical vital whatever
Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written.
early forward gave lecture social spoke time
Early in 1883, as I have said, I gave my first lecture on social questions, and from that time forward I spoke on these subjects.
again chief object summer though united whitman
In the summer of '84 I went again to the United States, my chief object again being to see Whitman - though I had also friends to visit.
rude mind details
With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.
joy coaching elements
What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No, the only true economy is to arrange so that your daily labor shall be itself a joy.
examination doe originality
Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.
men crowds firsts
Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men.
smile squares police
I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up.
mom motherhood incomparable
Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work.
strong block heart
Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest natures so strong, cannot fail to see how difficult, how tragic even, must often be the fate of those whose deepest feelings are destined from the earliest days to be a riddle and a stumbling-block, unexplained to themselves, passed over in silence by others.