The prose writer drags meaning along with a rope, the poet … - T. E. Hulme

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

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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A number of abstract ideas, of which we are as a matter of fact unconscious. We do not see them, but we see other things through them.

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

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