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T. E. Hulme
T. E. Hulme

T.E. Hulme was an influential English poet known for his concise and direct style. His work had a profound impact on early 20th-century British literature, particularly within the Imagist movement. Hulme's poetry emphasized clear expression and precise imagery, influencing later writers and critics for years to come. more

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“The life of God - the life which the mind apprehends and enjoys as it rises to the absolute unity of all things - may be described as a play of love with itself; but this idea sinks to an edifying truism, or even to a platitude, when it does not embrace in it the earnestness, the pain, the patience, and labor, involved in the negative aspect of things.”

“The soul is presupposed as a ready-made agent, which displays such features as its acts and utterances, from which we can learn what it is, what sort of faculties and powers it possesses -- all without being aware that the act and utterance of what the soul is really invests it with that character in our conception and makes it reach a higher stage of being than it explicitly had before.”