Top 33 Alice Notley Quotes
#1. Beachy Head brims with electrical currents flying backwards and forwards, with the force of poems that have been well fought out and felt. I hear the currents of Alice Notley, of Bernadette Mayer, of Eileen Myles, and Sylvia Plath
Dorothea Lasky
#2. Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!
Daniel Defoe
#3. When you want someone back, but you know they will never ever want you back again.
Unknown
#4. Abolish these categories of pain
(or is it love)
Let it all be one pain
Pain swallows itself, dies like a star.
Alice Notley
#6. oh each poet's a beautiful human girl who must die.
Alice Notley
#7. When you love someone, you stand for all of it. You see all of it, because even when they're in pain, it would still be better than losing them completely.
Amelia LeFay
#8. And maybe you can't know me now.
Maybe I'm just blood. Whatever that's for.
Alice Notley
#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
Alice Notley
#13. I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which is sad, really.
Amy Adams
#14. 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?
Alice Notley
#15. Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody?
I serve the poem, no one.
Alice Notley
#16. I had a hand fetish. His hands were big, probably beneficial for that stupid sport he played. His were the kind of hands that made wedding rings look sexy - tan with vein lines that ran like snaking rivers to his wrist and disappeared under his sleeves.
Tarryn Fisher
#17. It's necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against ... everything.
Alice Notley
#18. I didn't care much what happened to me, so chance didn't matter.
Alice Notley
#19. Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you.
Catherine Martin
#20. Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn't know what else to be.
Alice Notley
#21. In a way, I had such a normal life. But in another way, I saw things most kids don't see.
Miranda Lambert
#22. Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?
Seth Grahame-Smith
#23. 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.
Alice Notley
#24. We name us and then we are lost, tamed
I choose words, more words, to cure the tameness, not the wildness
Alice Notley
#25. Because we rejected a certain kind of critical language people just assumed that we were dumb
Alice Notley
#26. you see all night in your dreams. And the blue of my voice can't help but see you.
Alice Notley
#27. You're dancing on me
said the cosmic dragon, the galactic surface of all we can see.
So fucking what? she said.
Alice Notley
#28. Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims.
Mehmet Oz
#29. 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
#30. ... 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
#31. I knew you were in charge of me but my mind broke on its own.
Alice Notley
#33. The group parted happily for the scheduled lunch break, planning to return at 3:00 to look at some potential Yentes and Perchiks, beginning with Bea Arthur.
Alisa Solomon
