A living tree is a changing, sleeve shape, a wet, thin, bright green creature that survives in the thin layer between heartwood… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
I have this exercise where I force myself to look out from the flower's point of view at these great walloping humans… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
If you bend a branch until it's horizontal, the sap will slow to a stopping point: a comma or colon, made of… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
A dead tree, cut into planks and read from one end to the other, is a kind of line graph, with dates… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
Spring, when the earth tilts closer to the sun, runs a strict timetable of flowers. — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
“A Short Story of Falling It is the story of the falling rain to turn into a leaf and fall again it… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
There's a whole range of words that people use about landscape. Pastoral? Idyll? I can't stand them. — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
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. — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
I think it is the easiest mentality for a human being to be either colonized or to colonize. The structure of either the slave… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
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… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
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… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
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… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields, lose their… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
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. — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
At each moment, a poem might grow into a totally different shape. It is not so much like working in a garden. It is… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, youll see something of the difference between Homers poetry and anyone… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
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… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
A living tree is a changing, sleeve shape, a wet, thin, bright green creature that survives in the thin layer between heartwood and bark.… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
I stood looking down through the beech trees. When I threw a stone I could count to five before the splash. Then I jumped… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
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,… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
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… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
