Best 15 quotes of Alice Notley on MyQuotes

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

I'm not an expert in the deck at all. My interest lies somewhere near a sense that words are like tarot cards, and that a poem manipulates unpredictable depths with its words. . . . I like the tarot because it works like poetry and because you don't really have to 'believe in' anything. It's there to be used. The symbols are remarkably durable and beautiful; they float out to encompass all kinds of meanings.

Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.

Abolish these categories of pain (or is it love) Let it all be one pain Pain swallows itself, dies like a star.

And if you’re referring to your anguish, it’s just a thing. The shape of a trailor, a wheel, or a knife. Leave the details of your life and find another one.

And maybe you can’t know me now.   Maybe I’m just blood. Whatever that’s for.

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?

I didn't care much what happened to me, so chance didn't matter.

I can’t translate myself into language any more.

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.

There isn’t any way to be. I will meet you where you’ve gone. The cards are blank; the cards are empty there. If I can just have one last cut. Do you have a plan for the new? The cards be blank. The symbols be over. I will tell my fortune with the blank cards of blank. What do you see?

What did you do in your songs? I don’t know, I’ll never know, you say. Someone else will write them about me, won’t they? I looked into a void of love. And I fell down. There was nothing else there. No where, where I was no one. But I have to sing this song. I’m still here.

Who defined me? My culture, a culture of mercy, a living codex. I am a unique culture of one, from everywhere. I am her map and her self. I am everyone in the story; I am the story.

You're dancing on me said the cosmic dragon, the galactic surface of all we can see. So fucking what? she said.

You used to be alive, now you’re almost mythic.