18 Quotes by T. E. Hulme

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

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

Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.

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

Prose is a museum, where all the old weapons of poetry are kept.

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.

Language is by its very nature a communal thing...

Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.

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.