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I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears.

Alice Oswald / Poet
Ears
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I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears.

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Most spiders eat and remake their webs every night.

Alice Oswald Poet

I really think there are spirits in a place that you have to accommodate.

Alice Oswald Poet

Spring, when the earth tilts closer to the sun, runs a strict timetable of flowers.

Alice Oswald Poet

There's a whole range of words that people use about landscape. Pastoral? Idyll? I can't stand them.

Alice Oswald Poet

Before we can speak God's message, we must learn to listen. The opened ear comes before the opened mouth.

A. B. Simpson Author

Lying rumours do not penetrate farther than our ears.

Aeschines Statesman

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Alan Watts Philosopher

God is whispering in your heart, in the whole existence, just tune your ears.

Amit Ray Author

Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.

Bernard Malamud Author

I don't have a problem working 14 hours a day and still have ears and have a brain to mix afterwards. But I don't have the same strength to actively pursue and stay enthused about things like literature and movies and a social life - things that enhance the music, and the person.

Blake Mills Songwriter

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