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Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill.
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Certainly, truth prevails in the long run, but only when it is too late to have any real influence on affairs.
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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 prescence, a genius loci, a potency.
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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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A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.
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Pure scholarship, like pure science and art, is entirely useless. That is why it is admirable, a demonstration that civilized man is neither an animal nor a savage nor a peasant, for whom nothing exists but what is immediately useful.
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At night, the moon, a pregnant woman, walks cautiously over the slippery heavens.
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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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Why do we call ourselves 'Imagists'. Well why not? Well I think it is a very good and descriptive title and it serves to enunciate some of the principles we mos firmly believe in... Direct treatment of the subject... as few adjectives as possible... a hardness, as of cut stone... individuality of rhythm...
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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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Millions of human vermin swarm sweating along the night-arched cavernous roads. (Happily rapid chemical processes will disintegrate them all.
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I dream of silent verses where the rhyme
Glides noiseless as an oar.
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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
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Richard Aldington
Born:
July 8, 1892
Died:
July 27, 1962
(aged 70)
Bio:
Richard Aldington, born Edward Godfree Aldington, was an English writer and poet.
Known for:
Death of a Hero (1929)
Lawrence of Arabia (1955)
All men are enemies (1933)
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War and love (1919)
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