Alice Oswald Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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Alice Oswald quotes and sayings page 3 (poet). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 38 we have.

Alice Oswald Quotes
“I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears.”
Alice Oswald Quotes
“Most spiders eat and remake their webs every night.”
Alice Oswald Quotes
“There's a whole range of words that people use about landscape. Pastoral? Idyll? I can't stand them.”
“A dead tree, cut into planks and read from one end to the other, is a kind of line graph, with dates down one side and height along the other, as if trees, like mathematicians, had found a way of turning time into form.”
Alice Oswald Quotes
“At each moment, a poem might grow into a totally different shape. It is not so much like working in a garden. It is more as if you remade the garden every day.”
“That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a bad motive for action, keep well your repining - meaning, don't ignore the honest muttering in your head.”
Alice Oswald Quotes
“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 Quotes
“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 Quotes
“I really think there are spirits in a place that you have to accommodate.”
Alice Oswald Quotes
“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.”

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