Quotes by E. Hulme

“Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling.””

“All clear cut ideas turn out to be wrong.””

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

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

“Literature is a method of sudden arrangement of commonplaces. The suddenness makes us forget the commonplace. – T. E. Hulme””

“Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.””

“Wonder can only be the attitude of a man passing from one stage to another, it can never be a permanently fixed thing.””