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Richard Aldington
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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...”
Richard Aldington (1892–1962) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Modern Poetry and the Imagists in the Egoist, London 1914
“I dream of silent verses where the rhyme Glides noiseless as an oar.”
Richard Aldington (1892–1962) first seen 1929 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From At the British Museum Collected Poems, 1929
“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.”
Richard Aldington (1892–1962) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Introduction to Complete Poems, 1948
“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.”
Richard Aldington (1892–1962) first seen 1929 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Introduction to Collected Poems, 1929
“Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill.”
Richard Aldington (1892–1962) first seen 1931 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Colonel’s Daughter (1931) pt. 1, ch. 6