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.

- T. E. Hulme

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

- T. E. Hulme

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

- 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

Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.

- T. E. Hulme

Language is by its very nature a communal thing.

- 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 is induced …

- 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.

- 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 wh…

- T. E. Hulme