Phrase by 'Alice Oswald'
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There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem. I can't afford to relax in any area of life. You have to keep your senses awake to all the complacency that kicks in - particularly for the English.
Author: Alice Oswald - British PoetLife , You , Writing , Relax
Most spiders eat and remake their webs every night.
Author: Alice Oswald - British PoetEvery , Eat , Most , Night , Spiders
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.
Author: Alice Oswald - British PoetTime , Tree , Down , Dead
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.
Author: Alice Oswald - British PoetDay , World , Poetry , Night
I think it is the easiest mentality for a human being to be either colonized or to colonize. The structure of either the slave or the master seems to be the simplest and the most relaxing one to slip into. Either you are a slave, and you don't have to think for yourself, or you're a master, and you don't have to work for yourself.
Author: Alice Oswald - British PoetYou , Yourself , Work , Think
One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of invoking a ghost. Maybe the 'Iliad,' crowded with names, is more than a poem. Maybe it's a dangerous piece of the brightness of both this world and the next.
Author: Alice Oswald - British PoetWorld , Name , Poetry , Dead
I really think there are spirits in a place that you have to accommodate.
Author: Alice Oswald - British PoetYou , Think , Place , Spirits
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.
Author: Alice Oswald - British PoetWorld , Language , Try , Weird
I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears.
Author: Alice Oswald - British PoetBelieve , Poet , I Believe , Lens
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.
Author: Alice Oswald - British PoetMe , Sometimes , Think , Cool
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