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

- Richard Aldington

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

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

- Richard Aldington

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

- Richard Aldington

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... L…

- Richard Aldington

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

- Richard Aldington

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

- Richard Aldington

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

- Richard Aldington

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 geniu…

- Richard Aldington