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When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jittery vortices in the air.

~Alice Oswald

Topics: Air Blows Closed Cut Every Forming Leaf Mass Through Train Wind Wood

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I really think there are spirits in a place that you have to accommodate.

~Alice Oswald

Topics: Accommodate Place Really Spirits Think You

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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 else's. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the 'Iliad,' real animals, real people, real light attending everything.

~Alice Oswald

Topics: Alive Animals Anyone Attending Be Real Between Difference Else Everything Homer Iliad Leaf Leaves Light People Poetry Put Real Real People See Seem Side Silk Something Still You

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Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields, lose their courage or miss their wives. In addition to these, there is a cast of anonymous people: the farmers, walkers, mothers, neighbours who inhabit its similes.

~Alice Oswald

Topics: Addition Anonymous Biographies Cast Courage Farmers Iliad Inhabit Lose Men Miss Mothers Names Neighbours Ordinary Over People Plot Soldiers Stripped Trip Who Wives

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I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears.

~Alice Oswald

Topics: Believe Ears Except Lens Poem Poet I Believe I Believe The

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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.

~Alice Oswald

Topics: Day Different Each Every Every Day Garden Grow Like Might Moment More Much Poem Shape Totally Working You

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I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without the whole sentence falling to pieces.

~Alice Oswald

Topics: Being Could Falling Greek Language Latin Loved Much Pattern Pieces Preferred Sentence Shift Whole Without Word You

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At eight, I made a commitment to poetry. Until then, I thought I'd be a policeman. But I went a whole night without sleeping, and the next day the world had changed. It needed a different language.

~Alice Oswald

Topics: Changed Commitment Day Different Eight Had Language Made Needed Next Night Poetry Policeman Sleeping Then Thought Until Whole Without World

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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 because your head is left free.

~Alice Oswald

Topics: Because Free Full-Time Gardener Head Ideal Job Left Meant Meant To Be Never Out Poet Started Your

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To be a poet is as serious, long-term and natural as the effort to be the best human you can be. To express something well is not a question of having a top-class education and understanding poetic forms: rather, it's a question of paying attention.

~Alice Oswald

Topics: Attention Best Education Effort Express Forms Having Human Long-Term Natural Paying Poet Poetic Question Rather Serious Something Understanding Well You

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Poet

Born: Unknown

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