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.
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
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
At night, the moon, a pregnant woman, walks cautiously over the slippery heavens. - Richard Aldington
At night, the moon, a pregnant woman, walks cautiously over the slippery heavens.
All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism. - Richard Aldington
All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism.
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
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…
A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise. - Richard Aldington
A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.
Such shame is not even skin deep. And as to forgetting, surely, you know that is Woman's First and Greatest Art? - Richard Aldington
Such shame is not even skin deep. And as to forgetting, surely, you know that is Woman's First and Greatest Art?
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
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…
Millions of human vermin swarm sweating along the night-arched cavernous roads. (Happily rapid chemical processes will disintegrate them all. - Richard Aldington
Millions of human vermin swarm sweating along the night-arched cavernous roads. (Happily rapid chemical processes will disintegrate them all.
How on earth did it come about that all the things denounced in the Gospels are violently defended by the Christian sects? - Richard Aldington
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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