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title: "2 Attending Quotes By Alice Oswald"
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> [If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, youll see something of the difference between Homers poetry and anyone elses. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the Iliad, real animals, real people,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-oswald/if-you-put-a-real-leaf-and-a-silk-leaf-side-by-side-youll-see/)

[Alice Oswald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-oswald/)

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> [If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, you'll see something of the difference between Homer's poetry and anyone else's. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the 'Iliad,' real animals, real people,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-oswald/if-you-put-a-real-leaf-and-a-silk-leaf-side-by-side-you-ll-see/)

[Alice Oswald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-oswald/)

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## More by Alice Oswald

> [There's a whole range of words that people use about landscape. Pastoral? Idyll? I can't stand them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-oswald/there-s-a-whole-range-of-words-that-people-use-about-landscape/)

[Alice Oswald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-oswald/)

> [It's a question of trying to take down by dictation what's already there. I'm not making something, I'm trying to hear it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-oswald/it-s-a-question-of-trying-to-take-down-by-dictation-what-s-already/)

[Alice Oswald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-oswald/)

> [I think it is the easiest mentality for a human being to be either colonized or to colonize. The structure of either the slave…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-oswald/i-think-it-is-the-easiest-mentality-for-a-human-being-to-be-either/)

[Alice Oswald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-oswald/)

> [Wind ought to be a verb or an adverb. It isn't really anything. It's a manner of movement of warmth and cold: a kind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-oswald/wind-ought-to-be-a-verb-or-an-adverb-it-isn-t-really-anything-it-s-a/)

[Alice Oswald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-oswald/)

> [People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-oswald/people-are-so-used-to-reading-novels-now-they-just-read-a-poem/)

[Alice Oswald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-oswald/)

> [Topsoil is a place of digestion. It sucks and chews things into smaller pieces. When it's hungry, it turns grey and stony; when it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-oswald/topsoil-is-a-place-of-digestion-it-sucks-and-chews-things-into/)

[Alice Oswald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-oswald/)

> [Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields, lose their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-oswald/stripped-of-its-plot-the-iliad-is-a-scattering-of-names-and/)

[Alice Oswald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-oswald/)

> [I like Patti Smith's lyrics, and sometimes think I could be influenced by them. But she has a kind of cool that's beyond me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-oswald/i-like-patti-smith-s-lyrics-and-sometimes-think-i-could-be-influenced/)

[Alice Oswald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-oswald/)

> [At each moment, a poem might grow into a totally different shape. It is not so much like working in a garden. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-oswald/at-each-moment-a-poem-might-grow-into-a-totally-different-shape-it-is/)

[Alice Oswald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-oswald/)

> [If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, youll see something of the difference between Homers poetry and anyone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-oswald/if-you-put-a-real-leaf-and-a-silk-leaf-side-by-side-youll-see/)

[Alice Oswald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-oswald/)

> [I think it's often assumed that the role of poetry is to comfort, but for me, poetry is the great unsettler. It questions the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-oswald/i-think-it-s-often-assumed-that-the-role-of-poetry-is-to-comfort-but/)

[Alice Oswald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-oswald/)

> [A living tree is a changing, sleeve shape, a wet, thin, bright green creature that survives in the thin layer between heartwood and bark.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-oswald/a-living-tree-is-a-changing-sleeve-shape-a-wet-thin-bright-green/)

[Alice Oswald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-oswald/)

> [I stood looking down through the beech trees. When I threw a stone I could count to five before the splash. Then I jumped…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-oswald/i-stood-looking-down-through-the-beech-trees-when-i-threw-a-stone-i/)

[Alice Oswald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-oswald/)

> [Webs are made mostly of spaces. They break easily. They barely exist. They belong to the category of half-things: mist, smoke, shrouds, ghosts, membranes,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-oswald/webs-are-made-mostly-of-spaces-they-break-easily-they-barely-exist/)

[Alice Oswald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-oswald/)

> [If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, you'll see something of the difference between Homer's poetry and anyone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-oswald/if-you-put-a-real-leaf-and-a-silk-leaf-side-by-side-you-ll-see/)

[Alice Oswald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-oswald/)

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