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Quotes About Yearning

which I remember from my human past and from longing.
~ Alice Notley
You were sick, so sick, with your wound of thwarted longing
~ Alice Notley
I want to be with him in my thoughts; I want to live with him in my mind.
~ Alice Notley
I've been in love in a dream.
~ Alice Notley
I have no words for what I need. I think it is what we need; but do we have to need something?
~ Alice Notley
But there's a pain in lack of reasons.
~ Alice Notley
You used to take my breath away. Now no one does.
~ Alice Notley
I want to migrate, but there's nowhere left to go. If I could only find an unclaimed space.
~ Alice Notley
I know I sound plaintive. I sound desperate.
~ Alice Notley
I want to live here, where nothing coheres. Who'd be in ordinary life, working or shopping, looking forward to whatever it turns out it's about
~ Alice Notley
Evaporated I've never been there.
~ Alice Notley
Does she come to them sooner, for all their rage to find her?
~ Alice Notley
I don't find it, I don't think it is to be found. It's like passionate love for a ghost
~ Alice Notley
they seem to cry out that they want to be gods not humans.
~ Alice Notley
Hurts so—That's just loss. This hole within—
~ Alice Notley
I don't want to be in love. I'm tired of another's thoughts. I'm not, I can't stand my own.
~ Alice Notley
he who only came to me dreaming
~ Alice Notley
I'm hungry, I'm sick, I'm wounded.
~ Alice Notley
And, as usual, you don't really know what you want.
~ Alice Notley
I want to move to the new country right now.
~ Alice Notley
I want her to love me.
~ Alice Notley
Love is never appeased if she's repressed
~ Alice Notley
I'm trying to make a girl fall in love with me; I'm afraid it won't work, but it's a way of making my love take an outer shape.
~ Alice Notley
There is no other in my dreams, no beloved, there's no love . . .
~ Alice Notley