"I really think there are spirits in a……" — Alice Oswald
"I really think there are spirits in a place that you have to accommodate."
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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 much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a…
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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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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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More Accommodate Quotes
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In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains…
— Martha Beck
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Our laws were not designed to accommodate three or four thousand refugees coming here per day. Our laws were designed…
— Jimmy Carter
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The frustrations have been festering for 12 years because federal policy has forced immigration into this area with no programs…
— Unknown Author
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An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
— Michel de Montaigne
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While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it…
— Andrew Carnegie
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History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.
— Voltaire
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If we are going to save America and evangelize the world, we cannot accommodate secular philosophies that are diametrically opposed…
— Jerry Falwell
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Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments,…
— Barack Obama
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You've got to be fairly solemn [about the environment]. I mean the mere notion that there are three times as…
— David Attenborough
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In addition to the well-known benefits of health and well-being derived from exercise, there are other unique advantages to being…
— Grete Waitz
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Those wretches tainted with the error of Indifferentism and Modernism hold that dogmatic truth is not absolute, but relative: that…
— Pope Pius XI
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