Thomas Ernest Hulme

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    “Put shortly, these are the two views, then. One, that man is intrinsically good, spoilt by circumstance; and the other that he is intrinsically limited, but disciplined by order and tradition to something fairly decent. To the one party man’s nature is like a well, to the other like a bucket. The view which regards him like a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical.”
    —Thomas Ernest Hulme (1883–1917)

    “Trouth is trayed where craft is in ure;
    But though ye have had my hertes cure,
    Trow ye I dote withoute ending?
    What no, perdy!”
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    “For it’s home, dearie, home—it’s home I want to be.
    Our topsails are hoisted, and we’ll away to sea.
    O, the oak and the ash and the bonnie birken tree
    They’re all growing green in the old countrie.”
    —William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)

    “Oh, God, make small
    The old star-eaten blanket of the sky,
    That I may fold it round me and in comfort lie.”
    —Thomas Ernest Hulme (1883–1917)