"I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved……" — Alice Oswald
"I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without the whole sentence falling to pieces."
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Alice Oswald
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15 Quotes by Alice Oswald
Alice Oswald has 15 quotes on this site.
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I stood looking down through the beech trees. When I threw a stone I could count to five before the…
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Spring, when the earth tilts closer to the sun, runs a strict timetable of flowers.
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There are times when the voice of repining is completely drowned out by various louder voices: the voice of government,…
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At each moment, a poem might grow into a totally different shape. It is not so much like working in…
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I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet…
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One night, I lay awake for hours, just terrified. When the dawn finally came up - the comfortable blue sky,…
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I really think there are spirits in a place that you have to accommodate.
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A dead tree, cut into planks and read from one end to the other, is a kind of line graph,…
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A living tree is a changing, sleeve shape, a wet, thin, bright green creature that survives in the thin layer…
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When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of…
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Webs are made mostly of spaces. They break easily. They barely exist. They belong to the category of half-things: mist,…
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Most spiders eat and remake their webs every night.
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