Richard Aldington
Richard Aldington
Richard Aldington, born Edward Godfree Aldington, was an English writer and poet...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth8 July 1892
patriotism
Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
writing pieces kind
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.
military responsibility patriotism-and-nationalism
Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.
adventure hands unexpected
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?
happiness dark garden
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.
common-sense earth paradise
A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.
men artist office
No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.
cat giving soul
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.
night moon heaven
At night, the moon, a pregnant woman, walks cautiously over the slippery heavens.
night process rapids
Millions of human vermin swarm sweating along the night-arched cavernous roads. (Happily rapid chemical processes will disintegrate them all.
dream silent rhyme
I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar.
children patriotic abuse
All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism.
christian earth sects
How on earth did it come about that all the things denounced in the Gospels are violently defended by the Christian sects?
genius mystery potency
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.