"When I was 16, I was taught by……" — Alice Oswald
"When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer."
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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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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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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
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Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity,…
— Jan Peter Balkenende
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I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
— John Berger
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The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see…
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The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.
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I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Well, as I said, you know the issue of Greek debt, they've grasped the principle of debt reduction. I think…
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