Quotes from Alice Notley

though suffering rises up and shames me.

I'll never know how to live, will you? That was blood in my eyes, not flames.

Have I come from another world to inhabit this body of mine?

in the telepathy of dreams TALK TO ME

There are several kinds of time going on at the same time.

I'm afraid the way I think is an anthropological relic.

I don't want this part where I don't know if I've dreamed it or not.

I could have stayed out of this one; I didn't.

I only remember that it all hurt.

I am the being that deflects change, for change is boring and haunted, the same gestures in shifting colors. You know all the colors.

I couldn't stop thinking, my thoughts kept attacking my head; I was my angry thoughts, but I also watched them.

Bodiless we don't suffer: in a dream we aren't hungry, don't mourn you.

She starts to get used to being sacrificed

I've been in love in a dream.

I don't know how to be . . . an- ything but empty.

You'll never leave me now. You're mine. Be as I say.

I have no words for what I need. I think it is what we need; but do we have to need something?

I want everything to be bizarre; I want not to recognize anyone.

But there's a pain in lack of reasons.

We were ALways in this other time.

for everything I am is my mind, that never leaves me.

I expect to hear voices forever, even after I'm dead.

we can laugh at it sorrowfully

somewhere you know but never quite remember