Alice Oswald Quotes

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Poems, like dreams, have a visible subject and an invisible one. The invisible one is the one you can't choose, the one that writes itself. Not a message that comes at the end of the poem, more like a pathological condition that deforms every word – a resonance, a manner of speaking, a nervous tic, a pressure. And this invisible subject only shows up when you're speaking the language that you speak when no one is there to correct or applaud you. Remembering that language is the whole skill of writing well.

Alice Oswald

Alice Oswald

Alice Oswald

Born: 1966 (age 58)

Bio: Alice Oswald is a British poet from Reading, Berkshire who won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002.

Known for:

Falling Awake (2016)
Woods etc. (2005)
The Thing in the Gap-stone Stile (1996)
A Sleepwalk on the Severn (2009)

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