Alice Oswald Quotes

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

Alice Oswald

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BelieveLensI BelievePoetEars

Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves.

Maynard James Keenan

DayPeopleStartBookWake UpThink

Art reflects society. Cinema doesn't dictate - you portray what the society demands.

Sonam Kapoor

ArtSocietyYouCinemaDemands

I first became aware of Gina Rodriguez when she was just starting out starring on 'Jane the Virgin,' and a friend sent me an article in which she mentioned me.

Rita Moreno

FriendMeSheFirstStartingOut

There is no magic in all the world like that magic when you sell your first bit of writing.

Rosamunde Pilcher

WritingWorldMagicYouFirstSell

We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for.

Joichi Ito

PeaceWorldBuildingBelieveBridges

If our minds were originally formed by nature in a sound and useful manner, then they pass on all the forces of fate, which imposes on us from outside in a relatively unobjectionable and more acceptable way.

Chrysippus

NatureFateWayMindsSoundOutside

I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.

Bruce Willis

ChangePoliticsPastMeThinkRules

There's a certain kind of academic that comes to Washington and can't survive. They're the ones starting each sentence with 'The economic model says.'

Austan Goolsbee

SurviveWashingtonKindStarting

Acting can be so much fun that it's easy to forget that what you're doing is a job. But if I've got my tie on, I'm going to work.

Ashton Kutcher

WorkJobFunDoingYouActing

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.

Ninon de L'Enclos

WordsEscapePrepareUsThoseWhich

Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.

Les Brown

GoalsDayEffortSucceedOwnCount

I cannot know anything of which there is and can be only one.

Leo Strauss

KnowAnythingCannotOnlyWhich

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