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."

"Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities; and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order then these possibil…"

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

"The unit of significance in the poem is not the word but the phrase or sentence...a poet should consider the effect of the whole poem, not its local felicities."