Richard Aldington Quotes

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

  Richard Aldington

  Common Sense, Earth, Paradise

  Richard Aldington (1931). “The Colonel's Daughter: A Novel”, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday

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• All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism.

  Richard Aldington

  Children, Patriotic, Abuse

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• I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar.

  Richard Aldington

  Dream, Silent, Rhyme

  Richard Aldington (1928). “Collected poems”

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• 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

  Adventure, Hands, Unexpected

  Richard Aldington (2013). “Death of a Hero”, p.60, Penguin

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• Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.

  Richard Aldington

  Military, Responsibility, Patriotism And Nationalism

  Colonel's Daughter (1931) pt. 1, ch. 6

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• No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.

  Richard Aldington

  Artist, Men, Office

  Richard Aldington, Alister Kershaw (1970). “Richard Aldington: selected critical writings, 1928-1960”, Southern Illinois Univ Pr

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• 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.

  Richard Aldington

  Cat, Giving, Soul

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• Such shame is not even skin deep. And as to forgetting, surely, you know that is Woman's First and Greatest Art?

  Richard Aldington

  Art, Women, Firsts

  "The Colonel's Daughter: A Novel".

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• 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.

  Richard Aldington

  Hysteria, Church, Proof

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• 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.

  Richard Aldington

  Genius, Mystery, Potency

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• At night, the moon, a pregnant woman, walks cautiously over the slippery heavens.

  Richard Aldington

  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

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• 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.

  Richard Aldington

  Happiness, Dark, Garden

  Richard Aldington (1928). “Collected poems”

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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.

  Richard Aldington

  Writing, Pieces, Kind

  "Collected Poems". Book by Richard Aldington, Introduction, 1929.

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• How on earth did it come about that all the things denounced in the Gospels are violently defended by the Christian sects?

  Richard Aldington

  Christian, Earth, Sects

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

  Richard Aldington

  Night, Chemicals, Process

  Norman T. Gates, Richard Aldington (1974). “The poetry of Richard Aldington: a critical evaluation and an anthology of uncollected poems”, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr

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