Richard Aldington Quotes

Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.

A poem is a flexible thing, and a poem is a poem.

I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.

I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or sestina or any of that. For me, it's a kind of line. It's a rhythm. It's something musical.

I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse.

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

My own verse is usually free verse. The freer the better.

Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented.

I discover poetry when I was in elementary school and I was so fascinated by it. Because I realised if you get the right amount of syllables and the right amount of words, in the right rhyme scheme and you put it all together. You make words just bounce of a page.

I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing.

To understand Vers libre, one must abandon all desire to find in it the even rhythm of metrical feet. One must allow the lines to flow as they will when read aloud by an intelligent reader.

I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet.

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

Well-written words are music.

I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

I've always thought my poems told stories.

I like to write poetry.