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T. E. Hulme Quotes

Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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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