Quotes from Alice Notley

Distortion's all that I know.

leading to infinite nowhere.

In language I combine my flesh with yours, and you with mine; my flesh is tender, my skin aches from knowing you

No longer the dream we were invited to long ago

but you are incomplete unattached to me . . .

You talk to me in your sleep, the only time you talk to me.

I don't know a thing yet, and I haven't lived. I'm starting to now, aren't I? No, you're asleep, you're always asleep.

I wasn't any person any more.

this apocalyptic need for magic

Prophesy if you dare.

This is my heart, or is it yours, I move within.

love's the dirtiest thing in the world

I can no longer find any rationale for living. My life is as small as a firefly's. I am always uncomfortable; often I suffer.

I create death, and time.

All I feel is the tingle of this existence, or non-existence

I don't want to speak this language that doesn't know me.

But I've always been a poet, that's all, no sex or race, no age or face. Can Eternity strip me of it? That's only another word. I'm inside myself, and inside it.

Timeless, and loveless, this light touches me. I won't need anything else.

it's anywhere in the broken clock

I am void of what you would expect.

Now I feel I was inserted into life exactly not to do that. For I have been robbed of everything that made me social

I still love you, for I see your soul

I hear the noise of your thinking; but I don't listen. Your thoughts wouldn't bear remembering.

All my life Since I was 10 I've been waiting to be in this hell here with you All I've ever wanted And still do