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> [Language is by its very nature a communal thing...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-hulme/language-is-by-its-very-nature-a-communal-thing/)

[T. E. Hulme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-hulme/)

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## More by T. E. Hulme

> [In the light of absolute values (religious or ethical) man himself is judged to be limited or imperfect, while he can occasionally accomplish acts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-hulme/in-the-light-of-absolute-values-religious-or-ethical-man-himself-is/)

[T. E. Hulme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-hulme/)

> [Prose is a museum, where all the old weapons of poetry are kept](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-hulme/prose-is-a-museum-where-all-the-old-weapons-of-poetry-are-kept/)

[T. E. Hulme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-hulme/)

> [The artist tries to see what there is to be interested in...He has not created something,he has seen something.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-hulme/the-artist-tries-to-see-what-there-is-to-be-interested-in-he-has-not/)

[T. E. Hulme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-hulme/)

> [One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that)…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-hulme/one-of-the-main-reasons-for-the-existence-of-philosophy-is-not-that/)

[T. E. Hulme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-hulme/)

> [Prose is in fact the museum where the dead images of verse are preserved. In 'Notes', prose is 'a museum where all the old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-hulme/prose-is-in-fact-the-museum-where-the-dead-images-of-verse-are/)

[T. E. Hulme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-hulme/)

> [Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-hulme/literature-like-memory-selects-only-the-vivid-patches/)

[T. E. Hulme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-hulme/)

> [A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-hulme/a-poem-is-good-if-it-contains-a-new-analogy-and-startles-the-reader/)

[T. E. Hulme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-hulme/)

> [Language is by its very nature a communal thing...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-hulme/language-is-by-its-very-nature-a-communal-thing/)

[T. E. Hulme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-hulme/)

> [Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-hulme/thought-is-prior-to-language-and-consists-in-the-simultaneous/)

[T. E. Hulme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-hulme/)

> [All emotions are the ore from which poetry may be sifted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-hulme/all-emotions-are-the-ore-from-which-poetry-may-be-sifted/)

[T. E. Hulme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-hulme/)

> [“Put shortly, these are the two views, then. One, that man is intrinsically good, spoilt by circumstance; and the other that he is intrinsically…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-hulme/put-shortly-these-are-the-two-views-then-one-that-man-is/)

[T. E. Hulme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-hulme/)

> [The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse, was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of feeling which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-hulme/the-first-time-i-ever-felt-the-necessity-or-inevitableness-of-verse/)

[T. E. Hulme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-hulme/)

> [There is no such thing as an absolute truth to be discovered.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-e-hulme/there-is-no-such-thing-as-an-absolute-truth-to-be-discovered/)

[T. E. Hulme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-e-hulme/)

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