Alive Quote by 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…

— Alice Oswald

If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.

— John Keats

There were poets before Homer.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

— Walt Whitman

“Yet nothing can be more certain than this: what makes a poet a poet is the fact that he sees himself surrounded by figures…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Why does Homer give us descriptions so much more vivid than all the poets. Because he sees so much more around him. We speak…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The shadows of leaves are addressed to immortality”

— Donald Revell

“If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.”

— John Keats

“The image of a wood has appeared often enough in English verse. It has indeed appeared so often that it has gathered a good…

— Charles Williams

“In the moonlight David saw that Thoresby had become very peculiar indeed. Figs nestled among the leaves of beech-trees. Elder-trees were bowed down with…

— Susanna Clarke

The leaves had fallen from the trees and lay crisp and crackling beneath his feet. Picking one up he marveled, not for the first…

— Louise Penny

“Dear, dear Norland,' said Elinor, 'probably looks much as it always does at this time of year. The woods and walks thickly covered with…

— Jane Austen