Quotes from Alice Notley

Which one of us was more? He was always more.

We are our songs and films.

I have the face of a man who drinks blood, of a woman of guile and deception; of an arrogant beggar who doesn't owe you a thing.

I can't tell you a thing.

I just want to say it: I knew what was coming.

But I like the old themes, temptation, vengeance, hate.

At any moment a force from nowhere could rip me out of my life. I could die of traffic or weather, I could die of war or my heart.

Having dedicated whole regions to the destruction you inspire, the logic will be to go on doing it doing it. Having proceeded by the logic of your per- sonal vaccuum you will perceive your continued lightlessness as an excuse to go on. having gone on as you have. And so one continues.

I don't reside on your planet. I have never lived.

A world like a boat passing by, and perhaps another on the dark water.

No one is kind to me; no one asks me what's wrong.

How could we stop being us, even when we leave the jeweled cinema?

Each one we are equal; without a star fating us

I hate the blues; I hate being worse off than someone else.

I know I sound plaintive. I sound desperate.

I sound happy, even though the world is a frightful dream.

Oh but I need my lone self!

Chaotic to cast out kings

I wanted something different—Or is this it?

I can't love you. Why are you like this? Why did you hate me and make me hate you?

I want to live here, where nothing coheres. Who'd be in ordinary life, working or shopping, looking forward to whatever it turns out it's about

I don't know what's the point of it, being

I don't believe something.

Though Here's so total.