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Thomas Ernest Hulme (/hjuːm/; 16 September 1883 – 28 September 1917) was an English critic and poet who, through his writings on art, literature and politics, had a notable influence upon modernism. He was an aesthetic philosopher and the 'father of imagism'.

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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.

Light, Man, Men, Perfect, Religious

Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.

Literature, Memories, Patches, Selects, Vivid

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

Inspiration, Museums, Old, Poetry, Weapons

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

Artist, Interested, See, Tries, Trying

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

Absolute Truth, Absolutes, Discovered, Thing, Truth

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.

Common, Communal, Compromise, Language, Thing

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.

Desire, Feeling, Feelings, Quality, Space, Spaces

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

Different, Mind, Presentation, Prior, Two

Language is by its very nature a communal thing.

Common Language, Communal, Language, Nature, Thing

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

Analogies, Analogy, Habit, Poem, Poetry, Treating

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

Emotion, Emotions, May, Ore, Poetry, Sifted

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.

Definitions, Doe, Enables, Philosophy, Refuge