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Quotes About Desire

You entered this hall in your moonlit unconsciousness pleading for a different life.
~ Alice Notley
why can't I just live? Why can't I just live?
~ Alice Notley
this apocalyptic need for magic
~ Alice Notley
love's the dirtiest thing in the world
~ Alice Notley
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
~ Alice Notley
All my life, since I was ten, I've been waiting to be in this hell here with you; all I've ever wanted, and still do.
~ Alice Notley
Didn't want anyone to find me, not yet.
~ 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
I want to migrate, but there's nowhere left to go. If I could only find an unclaimed space.
~ Alice Notley
But I like the old themes, temptation, vengeance, hate.
~ 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
But this is a story of the end. don't you want to hear it
~ 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
I can't remember to be tempted.
~ Alice Notley
they seem to cry out that they want to be gods not humans.
~ 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
It's what you were to me, liquid, meandering. Love's object .
~ Alice Notley
We are all failing, masterfully, because we desire it. Want to see civilizations ruined, want to see our species' death, our psychic embroidery unraveled. We want to find out who's left, the impossible perceiver of our demise.
~ 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