Alice Oswald Quotes

People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from the slow way you read something if it's a tune; which to me a poem has to be.

Alice Oswald

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PeopleMeReadingSlowMeaningYou

If you don't cast well, you can be in real trouble.

John Frankenheimer

YouTroubleRealWellCast

Pleasure has ever more been represented by poets and by painters as clothed in perpetual smiles and adorned with the richest jewels; and in real life, we have known many who, allured by her deceptions, blandishments, and hollow but showy temptations, have followed as she pointed until ruin has befallen them.

John Tyler

LifeMoreSheRealSmilesPleasure

It didn't get any more glamorous than Havana, Cuba, in the 1950s. I used to go there when I was a waiter on a cruise ship.

Sirio Maccioni

ShipGoMoreCubaCruiseGlamorous

In the end, one has to feel lucky that things fell out O.K. I've felt that all the years I've been writing plays.

Tom Stoppard

WritingEndFeelLuckyYearsOut

For a lot of kids, reading is not magical. It's really hard work.

Jon Scieszka

WorkHard WorkReadingHardMagical

Hate has no place in the house of God.

Desmond Tutu

GodHateHousePlace

I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works - and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I AmWorldQuestionsInjusticeWay

If I had to identify the one skill set shared by most by the men who become part of the SEAL teams... it would be sheer brainpower.

Brandon Webb

MenSkillBecomeWouldSetIdentify

I was real good at music and real bad at everything else.

Bruce Springsteen

GoodMusicBadRealEverythingElse

Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.

Anne Michaels

IdeasRealityYouEmotionalFiction

I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way.

Anne Enright

WomenMeWritingSmallSayWay

Right now there should be a moratorium on the cutting down of old growth in this country. That is a small thing to ask at this point. There is only four percent of old growth left. Ninety-six percent of it has been cut down.

Woody Harrelson

GrowthSmallDownCountryNowRight

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