And where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds came to listen with serious and sympathetic mien.

- Edward Carpenter

Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the nobles…

- Edward Carpenter

Remember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of Eden. Only the heterosexual couple was expelled.

- Edward Carpenter

Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work.

- Edward Carpenter

We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.

- Edward Carpenter

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…

- Edward Carpenter

IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and sh…

- Edward Carpenter

I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me.

- Edward Carpenter

IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

- Edward Carpenter