“the hour has not yet ended in which under a cloth of laurel I sat quite still.”
Source: Falling Awake
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Famous Alice Oswald Quotes
“good morning to you, first faint breeze of unrest”
Source: Falling Awake
“but you were moving on: monotonous vindictive”
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“one of the many mass-produced particles of time”
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“and their hearts are already eroded and I too”
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“you are so bodiless, so barely there”
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“the same old choirs of hours”
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“as if dropped from a great height falling”
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“and half-formed faces float out and vanish too undulating to be actual”
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“almost everything here has cold hands”
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“or if I stand if I move one hand I hear the hiss of flowers closing their eyelids”
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“they lift their faces to the past”
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“I heard a cough as if a thief was there outside my sleep a sharp intake of air”
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“just so abrupt and odd the way she went hungrily asking in the heart's thick accent”
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“I always wake like this being watched already forgetting who I am”
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“there comes a tremor and there comes a pause”
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“it is always midnight in those pools”
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“I notice the fatigue of flowers weighed down by light”
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“why don't they lift their weight and see what's flattened underneath it?”
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“into the lane he dropped not once looking up”
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“being dragged along crippled over things as if broken-winged”
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“not yet continuous no more than a shiver of something”
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“I am cold cold trying to slide myself out of my own shade but hour by hour more shade leaks out”
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“it's as if I've interrupted something that was falling in a straight line from the eye of God”
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“somebody out not back being out again”
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“somebody lost out late again”
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“living in the slippery maybe the last green places are you listening”
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“cold nights without streetlights walking to the sea perhaps”
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“so many names in this place not many of us left living on the last we can find can you hear this”
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“no turning back each drop is a snap decision a suicide from the tower-block of heaven”
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