Quotes by Richard Aldington - Page 1

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
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Patriotism
Nationalism
Silly
Own
His
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Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.
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Military
Patriotism And Nationalism
Responsibility
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I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar.
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Dream
Rhyme
Silent
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No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.
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Men
Artist
Office
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At night, the moon, a pregnant woman, walks cautiously over the slippery heavens.
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Heaven
Moon
Night
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All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism.
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Abuse
Children
Patriotic
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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?
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Art
Women
Firsts
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A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.
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Common Sense
Earth
Paradise
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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?
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Christian
Earth
Sects
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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.
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Cat
Giving
Soul
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Millions of human vermin swarm sweating along the night-arched cavernous roads. (Happily rapid chemical processes will disintegrate them all.
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Chemicals
Night
Process
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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.
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Genius
Mystery
Potency
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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.
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Kind
Pieces
Writing
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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.
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Church
Hysteria
Proof
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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?
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Adventure
Hands
Unexpected
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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.
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Happiness
Dark
Garden
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