--- title: "1 Falling Story Quotes By Alice Oswald" description: "1 Falling Story quotes by Alice Oswald. Plus more from Alice Oswald and more Falling Story sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/699/alice-oswald-15385_fall_a-short-story-of-falling-it-is-the-story_2605403.jpg" --- > [“A Short Story of Falling It is the story of the falling rain to turn into a leaf and fall again it is the secret of a summer shower to steal the light and hide it in a flower and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-oswald/a-short-story-of-falling-it-is-the-story-of-the-falling-rain-to-turn/) [Alice Oswald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-oswald/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/699/alice-oswald-15385_fall_a-short-story-of-falling-it-is-the-story_2605403.jpg) ## 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/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/falling-story/alice-oswald/#itemlist", "name": "1 Falling Story Quotes By Alice Oswald", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“A Short Story of Falling It is the story of the falling rain to turn into a leaf and fall again it is the secret of a summer shower to steal the light and hide it in a flower and every flower a tiny tributary that from the ground flows green and momentary is one of water's wishes and this tale hangs in a seed-head smaller than my thumbnail if only I a passerby could pass as clear as water through a plume of grass to find the sunlight hidden at the tip turning to seed a kind of lifting rain drip then I might know like water how to balance the weight of hope against the light of patience water which is so raw so earthy-strong and lurks in cast-iron tanks and leaks along drawn under gravity towards my tongue to cool and fill the pipe-work of this song which is the story of the falling rain that rises to the light and falls again”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alice Oswald" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-oswald/a-short-story-of-falling-it-is-the-story-of-the-falling-rain-to-turn/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/699/alice-oswald-15385_fall_a-short-story-of-falling-it-is-the-story_2605403.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/699/alice-oswald-15385_fall_a-short-story-of-falling-it-is-the-story_2605403.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/699/alice-oswald-15385_fall_a-short-story-of-falling-it-is-the-story_2605403.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A Short Story of Falling It is the story of the falling rain to turn into a leaf and fall again it is the…” — Alice Oswald", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/falling-story/alice-oswald/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/falling-story/alice-oswald/", "name": "Falling Story Quotes by Alice Oswald", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/falling-story/alice-oswald/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/699/alice-oswald-15385_fall_a-short-story-of-falling-it-is-the-story_2605403.jpg" }, "description": "1 Falling Story quotes by Alice Oswald. 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