There were certain impressions I wanted to fix. I read vers… - T. E. Hulme

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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 case.

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Thomas Ernest Hulme (September 16, 1883 – September 28, 1917) was an English writer, critic and poet who, through his writings on art, literature and politics, had a notable influence upon modernism, especially the Imagist poetic form.

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

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

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