Top 20 Alice Notley Quotes
#1. I knew you were in charge of me but my mind broke on its own.
Alice Notley
#2. ... our production of the world, our interpretation of it, what we've been told to experience and what we've been told we have to do, both worry and distress me. I don't want to live in someone else's dream.
Alice Notley
#3. It's all like me; and any song for this would just be bullshit. This is a thing, where they stopped trying, they deserted it, and desertion itself is the only possible song.
Alice Notley
#4. You're dancing on me
said the cosmic dragon, the galactic surface of all we can see.
So fucking what? she said.
Alice Notley
#5. you see all night in your dreams. And the blue of my voice can't help but see you.
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#6. Because we rejected a certain kind of critical language people just assumed that we were dumb
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#7. We name us and then we are lost, tamed
I choose words, more words, to cure the tameness, not the wildness
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#8. Jack of diamonds is a hard card, why should there be a story? It's too hard a card to please, and it isn't the no earth I know. I got hepatitis C from shooting speed thirty-three years ago.
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#9. Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn't know what else to be.
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#10. I do utterly despise dailiness as it stands. I can't abide what the world has become, the frozen-ness of our product this evil thing that we kiss the ass of every hour. I want a dailiness that is free and beautiful
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#11. I didn't care much what happened to me, so chance didn't matter.
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#12. Abolish these categories of pain
(or is it love)
Let it all be one pain
Pain swallows itself, dies like a star.
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#14. oh each poet's a beautiful human girl who must die.
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#15. And maybe you can't know me now.
Maybe I'm just blood. Whatever that's for.
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#18. Feeling awful is physiological you say.
God I hate you, I say. Yes you can find the neurons for feeling awful. Do you think you can find the neurons for the fact I hate you?
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#19. Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody?
I serve the poem, no one.
Alice Notley
#20. It's necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against ... everything.
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