Top 35 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. No way. You won't catch Notley working weekends. Calls it the American disease, working all the hours God sends you.
Richard K. Morgan
#3. Political debate is political debate and that's fine. That's healthy.
Rachel Notley
#4. It's necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against ... everything.
Alice Notley
#5. I didn't care much what happened to me, so chance didn't matter.
Alice Notley
#6. Abolish these categories of pain
(or is it love)
Let it all be one pain
Pain swallows itself, dies like a star.
Alice Notley
#7. The climate change plan set out a few days ago by federal NDP leader Tom Mulcair will get us there, which is why I strongly support it.
Rachel Notley
#9. I'm not going to bargain in the media because I don't think that's appropriate.
Rachel Notley
#10. oh each poet's a beautiful human girl who must die.
Alice Notley
#11. I think all of our ministers are relatively inexperienced. I'm relatively inexperienced. We're a six-month-old government.
Rachel Notley
#12. What's really important to remember is that this type of legislation exists in one form or another in every other province in the country. The right to refuse unsafe work is a right that is enjoyed by every other farm worker, paid farm worker, in the country and every other paid worker in Alberta.
Rachel Notley
#13. And maybe you can't know me now.
Maybe I'm just blood. Whatever that's for.
Alice Notley
#16. Albertans were looking for change. And so I think that we're staying true to our principles by working to deliver on that change. And I think that is what people were looking for
Rachel Notley
#17. 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
#18. Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody?
I serve the poem, no one.
Alice Notley
#19. you see all night in your dreams. And the blue of my voice can't help but see you.
Alice Notley
#20. I think Albertans are progressive and forward-looking and are very optimistic, and I think they've always embraced change. Now with the economy being the way it is, I think we need to acknowledge people are a bit nervous too.
Rachel Notley
#21. Industry stakeholders have said to us, which we've heard loud and clear, as we move forward on the climate change discussions we need to do it with a clear eye on the fact that we are also having conversations around royalties and the two can't be separated.
Rachel Notley
#22. I knew you were in charge of me but my mind broke on its own.
Alice Notley
#23. Our government is operating within an unprecedented revenue shortfall and that we have an obligation to all citizens of the province to manage our finances responsibly. And that's what we're going to do.
Rachel Notley
#24. We have endorsements of our plan from key leaders within the environmental movement. That doesn't mean that it includes the whole environmental movement.
Rachel Notley
#25. ... 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
#26. 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
#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. I think that there's no question that, in Alberta as the price of oil continues to drop, that there are families ... that are worried about the instability that that brings to the economy. And so that has to be more and more front and centre in terms of the work that we do as a government.
Rachel Notley
#29. Because we rejected a certain kind of critical language people just assumed that we were dumb
Alice Notley
#30. I think that the climate change policy and strategy that we have developed and that we have rolled out thus far is an example of incredibly high-quality work, incredible collaboration by an exceptionally large number of well-informed people.
Rachel Notley
#31. In order to deal with the issues we're going to take a thoughtful, considered, intelligent approach to moving forward, we're going to do it with a great deal of consultation ... but to suggest you never change anything ever, ever, ever going forward I don't think is particularly responsible.
Rachel Notley
#32. We name us and then we are lost, tamed
I choose words, more words, to cure the tameness, not the wildness
Alice Notley
#33. 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
#34. Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn't know what else to be.
Alice Notley
#35. 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
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