Quotes from Alice Notley

I'm hungry, I'm sick, I'm wounded.

I'm sure I will change before I die, unless I die today or tomorrow.

Everything I think's private. I don't want the dead or telepaths to hear my mind.

And, as usual, you don't really know what you want.

I want to move to the new country right now.

I have made myself different eyes, to see down the infinite alleyways the universe dissolves into, at each ecstatic footfall

I want her to love me.

I see my past drifting away . . . It isn't relevant to remember who I was, what my cares were.

I am now a killer and an immortal, inorganic, an intellectual stranger.

I'm the being who isn't planetary; we have traveled beyond our world, to sit in a paper forest lit by jewel-light.

I will be myself again. When were we ourselves? eons and lives ago

the rags of chance.

I mean, they're made out of dust. You're all just dust and dried blood, you're dead. You are not absolute.

I have to cover up a lot of parts of me. Everyone does.

Green like nightshade green, stab-your-heart darkness to make you afraid.

I want to say something subtle, but I can't. It's that, now that no one loves me, I don't mind.

Green as the inside of your thoughts where you can't go, they're too deep.

I feel awkward, I don't know how to stand up among others.

Love is never appeased if she's repressed

Fate started here.

And all of that destruction belongs to you. The destruction can't be healed, we are murderers.

I'm signaling to others that I'm good.

How much have you suffered? It isn't just, is it? No it's not

so fascinated I couldn't stop.