22 Quotes by Alice Notley

the litup soul/self I have been From time to time I can't remember

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?

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.

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.

I can’t translate myself into language any more.

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?

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

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.