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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.

    T. E. Hulme, Patrick McGuinness (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.78, Psychology Press
  • Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images.

    Two   Mind   Different  
    T. E. Hulme, Patrick McGuinness (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.43, Psychology Press
  • Language is by its very nature a communal thing.

    T. E. Hulme, Patrick McGuinness (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.78, Psychology Press
  • Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.

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

    Space   Feelings   Desire  
    T. E. Hulme, Patrick McGuinness (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.64, 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.

    Religious   Men   Light  
    "Speculations: Essays on Humanism and the Philosophy of Art". Book by T. E. Hulme, 1924.
  • The artist tries to see what there is to be interested in... He has not created something, he has seen something.

    Artist   Trying  
    "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.

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

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

    May   Emotion  
    "Poetry & Drama, Volume II (Essay on Contemporary American Poetry)". Book edited by Harold Munro, 1914.
  • 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, Patrick McGuinness (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.77, Psychology Press
  • There is no such thing as an absolute truth to be discovered.

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