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)

    And wilt thou leave me thus?
    That hath loved thee so long
    In wealth and woe among:
    And is thy heart so strong
    As for to leave me thus?
    Say nay! say nay!
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    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)