Quotes from Alice Notley

Don't think of yourself as a rare sacrifice, blood has no beauty

I love that color of green, as dark as you can get. I want to be in a dark green place.

but I know I never really arrive.

I am a skeleton. I have a skull with an artifice of fire in its eyes.

I'm sickened by all the suffering I'm aware of.

Can't I go lonely to bed?

that makes me feel like I'm living in your dream.

I rest all night in the eye of a hurricane.

I want to know why my loves had to die.

I wonder who I will know when I die, if anyone.

You used to take my breath away. Now no one does.

I don't want to bother anyone anymore, I try to stay still.

I want to know the thing that will justify my time, all the time I've spent doing shit jobs. Stupid work.

I don't remember how to speak for myself anymore

I don't believe I'll ever leave: will I really leave?

I have so many ideas! I'm so full of thought I can't remember what I look like.

Okay, I have to flee the storm again. Or I could stay.

My history and civilization are literally melting; everyone knows.

I want to migrate, but there's nowhere left to go. If I could only find an unclaimed space.

I already have no point of view except that of the fallen. I have no individuality, because I'm a deadened thing.

Everything we have done we can come to despise

Of course I'm not being objective it was my life As a matter of fact I feel positively defiant about

We go where we live—there is nowhere else.

I'm your perceptions, shuddering.