Richard Aldington Quotes (text), Famous Quotes by Richard Aldington

We pass and leave you lying. No need for rhetoric, for funeral music, for melancholy bugle-calls. No need for tears now, no need for regret.

We took our risk with you; you died and we live. We take your noble gift, salute for the last time those lines of pitiable crosses, those solitary mounds, those unknown graves, and turn to live our lives out as we may.

Which of us were fortunate — who can tell? For you there is silence and cold twilight drooping in awful desolation over those motionless lands. For us sunlight and the sound of women’s voices, song and hope and laughter, despair, gaiety, love — life.

Lost terrible silent comrades, we, who might have died, salute you.

Richard Aldington

Topics in Death, Memory

Tags in Patriotism, War

Birth:	8th July, 1892
Death:	27th July, 1962
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Poet, Writer

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