By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of cert… - Richard Aldington

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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.

Richard Aldington

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Richard Aldington (8 July 1892 – 27 July 1962), born Edward Godfree Aldington, was an English writer and poet. Aldington was best known for his World War I poetry.

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Alternative Names: Edward Godfree Aldington

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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.

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

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

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