Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling. - T. E. Hulme

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Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling.

T. E. Hulme

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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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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.

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

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

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