Living Tree Quotes by Alice Oswald

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Alice Oswald has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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

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