T. E. Hulme Quotes

• Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is common to you, me, and everybody.

  T. E. Hulme

  Common, Language, Compromise

  T. E. Hulme, Patrick McGuinness (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.78, Psychology Press

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• Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.

  T. E. Hulme

  Memories, Literature, Vivid

  T. E. Hulme, Patrick McGuinness (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.57, Psychology Press

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• All emotions are the ore from which poetry may be sifted.

  T. E. Hulme

  May, Emotion

  "Poetry & Drama, Volume II (Essay on Contemporary American Poetry)". Book edited by Harold Munro, 1914.

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• The artist tries to see what there is to be interested in... He has not created something, he has seen something.

  T. E. Hulme

  Artist, Trying

  "Speculations: Essays on Humanism and the Philosophy of Art". Book by T. E. Hulme, 1924.

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• Language is by its very nature a communal thing.

  T. E. Hulme

  Language, Common Language

  T. E. Hulme, Patrick McGuinness (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.78, Psychology Press

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• One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that) but that it does provide you a refuge for definitions.

  T. E. Hulme

  Philosophy, Doe, Definitions

  T. E. Hulme, Patrick McGuinness (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.77, Psychology Press

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• A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.

  T. E. Hulme

  Poetry, Analogies, Habit

  "Speculations: Essays on Humanism and the Philosophy of Art". Book by T. E. Hulme, 1924.

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• In the light of absolute values (religious or ethical) man himself is judged to be limited or imperfect, while he can occasionally accomplish acts which partake of perfection, he, himself can never be perfect.

  T. E. Hulme

  Religious, Men, Light

  "Speculations: Essays on Humanism and the Philosophy of Art". Book by T. E. Hulme, 1924.

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• The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse, was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of feeling which is induced by the flat spaces and wide horizons of the virgin prairie of western Canada.

  T. E. Hulme

  Space, Feelings, Desire

  T. E. Hulme, Patrick McGuinness (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.64, Psychology Press

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• Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images.

  T. E. Hulme

  Two, Mind, Different

  T. E. Hulme, Patrick McGuinness (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.43, Psychology Press

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• There is no such thing as an absolute truth to be discovered.

  T. E. Hulme

  Truth, Absolute Truth, Absolutes

  T. E. Hulme, Patrick McGuinness (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.18, Psychology Press

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• Prose is in fact the museum where the dead images of verse are preserved. In 'Notes', prose is 'a museum where all the old weapons of poetry kept.

  T. E. Hulme

  Inspiration, Museums, Weapons

  "Selected Writings".

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