Quotes from Alice Notley

I am someone who couldn't find her place

I'm overwhelmed by your reality.

or is it long ago, out of the memory I can't have, where does this imagery come from

I don't feel like I am where you are; I'm not in the world except by appearance.

It's what you were to me, liquid, meandering. Love's object .

the ones that are saying goodbye.

I cried in the kitchen, his death was stupid at such a young age.

Why am I alive?

If you don't understand me, then it must be experienced.

I'm alone as usual impossibly nowhere or right here. I walked a path, formerly.

Time exists to be brutal in.

I don't listen when someone says god. I don't want to talk about god.

Don't ever speak to me from ecstasy, my life is broken.

Billions hide me before I can arise on my golden wings or something

where we once sat lamenting.

Death is beautiful the way you are

I'm so crazy I can't know anyone anymore. I listen to voices, see people who aren't tangible to others; they sustain me, and I need them. Who's to say who's really here?

Death is beautiful, the way you are . . . If it's so beautiful why must I live now, live first?

I would kill you if I cared to. Understand how dangerous I am. I could make you die again; I am the being who is the essence of repetition.

You must know that you're always dead . . .

We are all failing, masterfully, because we desire it. Want to see civilizations ruined, want to see our species' death, our psychic embroidery unraveled. We want to find out who's left, the impossible perceiver of our demise.

And if I am I must still bring down the pyramid, the paradigm, the leader's pearl throne.

I hear voices in my head continuously, at least one of them sounds like me.

I was always graceful and cheerful, empty-minded, as one now perfects servility