There are times when the voice of repining is completely drowned out by various louder voices: the voice of government, the voice of taste, the voice…

- Alice Oswald

Spring, when the earth tilts closer to the sun, runs a strict timetable of flowers.

- Alice Oswald

I stood looking down through the beech trees. When I threw a stone I could count to five before the splash. Then I jumped in a rush of gold to the he…

- Alice Oswald

The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye and disappears in its own brightness. Like a flam…

- Alice Oswald

Most spiders eat and remake their webs every night.

- Alice Oswald

If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, youll see something of the difference between Homers poetry and anyone elses. There seem to be r…

- Alice Oswald