22 Quotes by Alice Notley

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

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

I knew you were in charge of me but my mind broke on its own.

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.

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

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.

In love there is no because.

Jack of diamonds is a hard card, why should there be a story? It’s too hard a card to please, and it isn’t the no earth I know. I got hepatitis C from shooting speed thirty-three years ago.

Because we rejected a certain kind of critical language people just assumed that we were dumb.