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T. E. Hulme Quotes (1883-1917)
Writer, Poet
About T. E. Hulme
Thomas Ernest Hulme (September 16, 1883 – September 28, 1917) was an English writer, critic and poet who, through his writings on art, literature and politics, had a notable influence upon modernism, especially the Imagist poetic form.
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“There is nothing to do but keep on.”
“Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.”
“Old houses were scaffolding once
and workmen whistling.”
and workmen whistling.”
“My objection to metre is that it enables people to write verse with no poetic inspiration.”
“It is a delicate & difficult art fitting rhythm to an idea...communicating momentary phases in a poet's mind.”
“A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.”
“The artist tries to see what there is to be interested in... He has not created something, he has seen something.”
“A number of abstract ideas, of which we are as a matter of fact unconscious. We do not see them, but we see other things through them.”
“The unit of significance in the poem is not the word but the phrase or sentence...a poet should consider the effect of the whole poem, not its local felicities.”
“There were certain impressions I wanted to fix. I read verse models but none seemed to suitably express that kind of impression..until I came to read French vers libre which seemed to eactly fitr the case.”
“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.”
“Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities; and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order then these possibilities will have a chance and you will het Progress. One can define the classical quite clearly as the exact opposite to this. Man is an extraordinary fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organization that anything decent can be got out of him.”
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T. E. Hulme on Poets
T. E. Hulme on Artist
“The artist tries to see what there is to be interested in... He has not created something, he has seen something.”
T. E. Hulme on Poetry
“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 on Absolutism
“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.”
About T. E. Hulme
Thomas Ernest Hulme (September 16, 1883 – September 28, 1917) was an English writer, critic and poet who, through his writings on art, literature and politics, had a notable influence upon modernism, especially the Imagist poetic form.