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Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn't know what else to be. -- Alice Notley
you see all night in your dreams. And the blue of my voice can't help but see you. -- Alice Notley
Gee whiz, it's all fucking heart-
breaking -- Alice Notley
... 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
We name us and then we are lost, tamed
I choose words, more words, to cure the tameness, not the wildness -- Alice Notley
I knew you were in charge of me but my mind broke on its own. -- Alice Notley
In love there is no because. -- Alice Notley
I didn't care much what happened to me, so chance didn't matter. -- Alice Notley
And maybe you can't know me now.
Maybe I'm just blood. Whatever that's for. -- Alice Notley
Abolish these categories of pain
(or is it love)
Let it all be one pain
Pain swallows itself, dies like a star. -- Alice Notley
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
You're dancing on me
said the cosmic dragon, the galactic surface of all we can see.
So fucking what? she said. -- Alice Notley
Because we rejected a certain kind of critical language people just assumed that we were dumb -- Alice Notley
It's necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against ... everything. -- Alice Notley
oh each poet's a beautiful human girl who must die. -- Alice Notley
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
I'll never know how to live, will you? -- Alice Notley
Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody?
I serve the poem, no one. -- Alice Notley
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
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