Alice Oswald Quotes

If you bend a branch until it's horizontal, the sap will slow to a stopping point: a comma or colon, made of leaves grown into one another and over one another and hardened. Out of this pause comes a flower, which unfolds itself in spirals, as if the leaf form, unable to keep to its line, had begun to pivot.

Alice Oswald

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: 1966

Topics

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We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost.

Jeremiah Wright

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You could almost write an opera about the selection of music directors for orchestras. The intrigues are really interesting, and then, at the end, the results are completely unexpected.

Andris Nelsons

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Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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A healthy diet is a solution to many of our health-care problems. It's the most important solution.

John Mackey

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Fame is part of me and my life as an actor. I enjoy the creative aspects of my life as an actor. I enjoy directing and acting as well. But the bottom line for me is not prestige and power. It's about having an exciting, creative life.

Matt Dillon

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I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam.

Sun Myung Moon

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The Indians may have in their religion and culture a reverence for the land. But then they get into the pressures created by modern society. Unless they are reasonably well-educated, they can't deal with them.

Stewart Udall

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I like acting better than anything else, but, you know, directing's good.

Tommy Wiseau

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Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.

Tom Shadyac

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You know, they were returning to the language of the people and trying to use musical language, particularly as Copland did to create a musical language in which all Americans would feel that they had a stake.

Michael Tilson Thomas

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The dirty little secret the media doesn't want to admit is that Trump generates such good content that they can't help covering him even when they hate him.

Milo Yiannopoulos

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I have my own definitions of success. And I have my own definitions of country music that, luckily, I share with more people than I realized before.

Jason Isbell

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