Quotes by T. E. Hulme - Page 1

Language is by its very nature a communal thing.
T. E. Hulme / Poet
Common Language
Language
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Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.
T. E. Hulme / Poet
Literature
Memories
Vivid
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All emotions are the ore from which poetry may be sifted.
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Emotion
May
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There is no such thing as an absolute truth to be discovered.
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Truth
Absolute Truth
Absolutes
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All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
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Conceit
Designed
Histories
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All conviction - and so, necessarily, conversion - is based on the motor and emotional aspects of the mind.
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Conversion
Motor
Aspects
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Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images.
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Different
Mind
Two
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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.
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Artist
Trying
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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.
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Poetry
Analogies
Habit
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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Blue
Conscious
Spectacles
Distorting
Glass
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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.
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Inspiration
Museums
Weapons
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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.
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Common
Compromise
Language
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No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.
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Biased
Faithful
Selection
Inevitably
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Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.
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Animal
Constant
Decent
Fixed
Organisation
Absolutely
Extraordinarily
Him
Limited
Whose
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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.
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Definitions
Doe
Philosophy
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The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical.
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Finite
Classical
Creature
Possibilities
Regards
Reservoir
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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.
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Men
Light
Religious
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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.
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Space
Desire
Feelings
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
T. E. Hulme / Poet
Appearance
Confusion
Details
Obscurity
Pleasure
Pure
Regularity
Absolutely
Accidental
Distinct
Existing
Geometrical
Outside
Troubled
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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 get Progress.
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Chance
Society
Destruction
Individual
Infinite
Order
Progress
Romanticism
Here
Oppressive
Possibilities
Rearrange
Reservoir
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