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  • I began to write what I called 'rhythms' ie unrhymed pieces with no formal metrical scheme where the rhythm was created by a kind if inner chant... Later I was told I was writing 'free verse' or Vers libre.

    Writing   Pieces   Kind  
    "Collected Poems". Book by Richard Aldington, Introduction, 1929.
  • No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.

    Artist   Men   Office  
    Richard Aldington, Alister Kershaw (1970). “Richard Aldington: selected critical writings, 1928-1960”, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
  • Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else - above all, a travel bureau - arrange everything before-hand?

    Richard Aldington (2013). “Death of a Hero”, p.60, Penguin
  • How on earth did it come about that all the things denounced in the Gospels are violently defended by the Christian sects?

    Christian   Earth   Sects  
  • Millions of human vermin swarm sweating along the night-arched cavernous roads. (Happily rapid chemical processes will disintegrate them all.

    Norman T. Gates, Richard Aldington (1974). “The poetry of Richard Aldington: a critical evaluation and an anthology of uncollected poems”, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
  • All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism.

  • A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.

    Richard Aldington (1931). “The Colonel's Daughter: A Novel”, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday
  • I have sat here happy in the gardens, Watching the still pool and the reeds And the dark clouds. . . . But though I greatly delight In these and the water lilies, That which sets me nighest to weeping Is the rose and white colour of the smooth flag-stones, And the pale yellow grasses Among them.

    Happiness   Dark   Garden  
    Richard Aldington (1928). “Collected poems”
  • By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency.

  • Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.

    Colonel's Daughter (1931) pt. 1, ch. 6
  • At night, the moon, a pregnant woman, walks cautiously over the slippery heavens.

    Moon   Night   Heaven  
    Richard Aldington, Michael Copp (2002). “An Imagist at War: The Complete War Poems of Richard Aldington”, p.52, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
  • I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar.

    Dream   Silent   Rhyme  
    Richard Aldington (1928). “Collected poems”
  • Such shame is not even skin deep. And as to forgetting, surely, you know that is Woman's First and Greatest Art?

    Art   Women   Firsts  
    "The Colonel's Daughter: A Novel".
  • Cats are like donkeys and camels, they won't ever quite give in to human tyranny, they won't try to imitate the human soul.

    Cat   Giving   Soul  
  • We must grow out of religion. It is either bugaboo, formalism, or hysteria. Besides, what proof is there that "the churches" know more about "God" than the Cockney sentry on duty outside the camp? We have only their say-so.

    Hysteria   Church   Proof  
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