Analogies Quote 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…

— T. E. Hulme

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

— T. E. Hulme

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

— 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)…

— 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…

— T. E. Hulme

Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.

— T. E. Hulme

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

— T. E. Hulme

Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images.

— T. E. Hulme

All emotions are the ore from which poetry may be sifted.

— 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…

— 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…

— T. E. Hulme

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

— T. E. Hulme