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Quotes About Emotion

Writing a poem, I construct a magenta fan with a photolikeness, enclosed in a central oval, of a beloved relation, with her hair brown that is not to say, before her hair turned grey: it's her essential self. Someone's jealous of the attention I'm paying her in my work because he wants it all for his art which is a pure, gridded, layer of words painted in crosshatched grey monochrome brushstrokes. Your art, he seems to say to me, kisses life's ass. His art asks that his own ass be kissed.
~ 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 don't think this is about love; you are telling me we need a new description.
~ Alice Notley
It's what you were to me, liquid, meandering. Love's object .
~ Alice Notley
Don't ever speak to me from ecstasy, my life is broken.
~ Alice Notley
I want her to love me.
~ Alice Notley
Green like nightshade green, stab-your-heart darkness to make you afraid.
~ Alice Notley
Love is never appeased if she's repressed
~ Alice Notley
you kill me, but here I'll be, dis- passionate, outside time.
~ 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
though you seem so emotional you have no feeling
~ Alice Notley
I want to be locked in this situation where he threatens me then tells me je t'aime.
~ Alice Notley
May two fields be bridged by a stile And two hearts by the tilting footbridge of a glance
~ Alice Oswald
and their hearts are already eroded and I too
~ Alice Oswald
there comes a tremor and there comes a pause
~ Alice Oswald
a kiss gives off a swoosh of amnesia
~ Alice Oswald
wet and sweet like stewed apples this must be the heart this is only a dream
~ Alice Oswald
when a man rolls over and sighs
~ Alice Oswald
remembering better times whereas naming no names some of us would rather not remember something some of us have got enough bloody nightmares already
~ Alice Oswald
just so abrupt and odd the way she went hungrily asking in the heart's thick accent
~ Alice Oswald
what a nervous readiness attached to its lament
~ Alice Oswald
Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.
~ Alice Sebold
Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.
~ Alice Sebold
I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.
~ Alice Sebold