Dart Quotes

“What I love is one foot in front of another. South-south-west and down the contours. I go slipping between Black Ridge and White Horse Hill into a bowl of the moor where echoes can't get out

listen

a

lark

spinning

around

one

note

splitting

and

mending

it

and I find you in the reeds, a trickle coming out of a bark, a foal of a river”
― Alice Oswald, Dart

“Tillworkers, thieves and housewives, all enshrined in sleep, unable to look round; night vagrants, prisoners on dream-bail, children without parents, free-trading, changing, disembodied, blind dreamers of every kind; even corpses, creeping disconsolate with tiny mouths, not knowing, still in tears, still in their own small separate atmospheres, rubbing the mould from their wet hands and feet and lovers in mid-flight all sank like a feather falls, not quite in full possession of their weight.”
― Alice Oswald, Dart

“Why is this jostling procession of waters, its many strands overclambering one another, so many word-marks, momentary traces in wind-script of the world’s voices, why is it so bragging and surrendering, love-making, spending, working and wandering”
― Alice Oswald, Dart