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Edward Godfree Aldington dit Richard Aldington est un écrivain et poète britannique, lié au vorticisme et à l'imagisme, célèbre auteur de Death of a Hero et biographe controversé de T. E. Lawrence. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. juillet 1892 – 27. juillet 1962
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Richard Aldington: Citations en anglais

“I dream of silent verses where the rhyme
Glides noiseless as an oar.”

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Richard Aldington

From At the British Museum Collected Poems, 1929

“Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill.”

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The Colonel’s Daughter (1931) pt. 1, ch. 6

“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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Introduction to 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.”

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Introduction to Complete Poems, 1948

“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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Modern Poetry and the Imagists in the Egoist, London 1914

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