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I like Patti Smith's lyrics, and sometimes think I could be influenced by them. But she has a kind of cool that's beyond me.
— Alice Oswald
Most spiders eat and remake their webs every night.
— Alice Oswald
It's a question of trying to take down by dictation what's already there. I'm not making something, I'm trying to hear it.
— Alice Oswald
Alice Oswald. With Hughes and Heaney gone, people are looking around for the best British and Irish poets. Oswald is one of our finest.
— Tobias Hill
I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your head is left free.
— Alice Oswald
I try not to invent; I try simply to translate the weird language of the natural world. And I'm not into absolute ownership of things.
— Alice Oswald
One must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the mountain in the distance, or one would never reach one's goal.
— Cassandra Clare
And the guelder rose
In a great stillness dropped, and ever dropped,
Her wealth about her feet. — Jean Ingelow
In a great stillness dropped, and ever dropped,
Her wealth about her feet. — Jean Ingelow
When you gain higher consciousness, your consciousness becomes universal and you become ageless, endless, and universal.
— Debasish Mridha
An armed disciplined force is in its essence dangerous to liberty.
— Cecil Woodham-Smith
There's a whole range of words that people use about landscape. Pastoral? Idyll? I can't stand them.
— Alice Oswald
Peter kept walking.
— Brom
When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer.
— Alice Oswald
Wind ought to be a verb or an adverb. It isn't really anything. It's a manner of movement of warmth and cold: a kind of information system of the air.
— Alice Oswald