T. E. Hulme

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

"In the light of absolute values 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."

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

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

"The prose writer drags meaning along with a rope, the poet makes it stand out and hit you."

"There were certain impressions I wanted to fix. I read verse models but none seemed to suitably express that kind of impression..until I came to read French vers libre which seemed to eactly fitr the …"

"Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches."

"Poetry is no more, no less than a mosaic of words, so great exactness is required for each one."