Falling Awake Quotes

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Alice Oswald
“still in her white night
clothes in the same long entangle-
ment”
Alice Oswald, Falling Awake

Alice Oswald
“the makeshift character that
springs from speaking and looking
on and letting everything pass and
then the loneliness of being left here
endless lost to my lethargy like a
dripping tap”
Alice Oswald, Falling Awake

Alice Oswald
“so the thought goes on recycling
itself”
Alice Oswald, Falling Awake

Alice Oswald
“the village is lost in its veils
a few dreams lean over the lanes like
nettles”
Alice Oswald, Falling Awake

Alice Oswald
“and bodiless black lace woods in
which one to another a songbird asks
is it light is it light

not quite”
Alice Oswald, Falling Awake

Alice Oswald
“wet and sweet like stewed apples this
must be the heart this is only a dream”
Alice Oswald, Falling Awake

Alice Oswald
“when a man rolls over and sighs”
Alice Oswald, Falling Awake

Alice Oswald
“very nearly anonymous now
having recently turned five thousand
with the same wedge of yearning
lodged in my chest as ever
and getting accustomed to
surviving like a bramble very good
at growing anywhere you ought to
praise me for this trailing bloom”
Alice Oswald, Falling Awake

Alice Oswald
“examining the
whole horizonless question of desire”
Alice Oswald, Falling Awake

Alice Oswald
“this must be the heart this must be
my innermost thought this is only
a dream”
Alice Oswald, Falling Awake

Alice Oswald
“I thought I heard myself
being looked for what is it I said
what is it madam that you wish to
imply”
Alice Oswald, Falling Awake

Alice Oswald
“she never quite completes her
sentence but is always almost”
Alice Oswald, Falling Awake

Alice Oswald
“severed
by light from myself not knowing
but almost”
Alice Oswald, Falling Awake

Alice Oswald
“but it is glittering now in the
gaps between things”
Alice Oswald, Falling Awake

Alice Oswald
“and the hour is quickened by
crows”
Alice Oswald, Falling Awake

Alice Oswald
“and magpies coming straight
from a meeting with misfortune”
Alice Oswald, Falling Awake

Alice Oswald
“rewinding and grieving

rewinding and grieving”
Alice Oswald, Falling Awake

Alice Oswald
“it makes me shiver like a dead
soldier returning his empty clothes
to his bride but she's married
someone else”
Alice Oswald, Falling Awake

Alice Oswald
“and hearing the lurch the
well-known slap of joy”
Alice Oswald, Falling Awake

Alice Oswald
“nothing yet has a shadow every-
thing is here but pale”
Alice Oswald, Falling Awake

Alice Oswald
“and what precisely is this shining”
Alice Oswald, Falling Awake

Alice Oswald
“the same dizziness the same life
like a metal beam whacks me on the
head again as when a man slinks
home after battle
alive alive and nobody else was
that lucky
who is it trapped in this living
shape pushing the door with his
hands still covered in blood”
Alice Oswald, Falling Awake

Alice Oswald
“with the same old grief as
mine is it mine am I home oh how
much life not my own have I
buttered and eaten”
Alice Oswald, Falling Awake

Alice Oswald
“as soon as the grief as soon as a
ghost begins to shake me from the
inside”
Alice Oswald, Falling Awake

Alice Oswald
“a kiss gives off a swoosh of
amnesia”
Alice Oswald, Falling Awake

Alice Oswald
“which is love's property”
Alice Oswald, Falling Awake

Alice Oswald
“which is a memory

which happens again and again”
Alice Oswald, Falling Awake

Alice Oswald
“what a block of hope what a
kleptomaniac what a thief of life

I am”
Alice Oswald, Falling Awake

Alice Oswald
“and the whole apparition only
ever known backwards already too
late now almost gone”
Alice Oswald, Falling Awake

Alice Oswald
“And so he goes on dwindling away
maybe through too much prayer
is now too rarefied to touch
or settle anywhere”
Alice Oswald, Falling Awake

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