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Quotes About Reflection

I hear the noise of your thinking; but I don't listen. Your thoughts wouldn't bear remembering.
~ Alice Notley
I like the beauty of being restored to myself, in the pollen light
~ Alice Notley
the litup soul/self I have been From time to time I can't remember
~ Alice Notley
I have no hope then? the patient asks. There is no hope or change. Have I not changed? the patient asks. How could anything so empty change?
~ Alice Notley
which I remember from my human past and from longing.
~ Alice Notley
Your thoughts have given up, finally.
~ Alice Notley
You return here at night when you dream. A part of your waking self remains
~ Alice Notley
I'll never know how to live, will you? That was blood in my eyes, not flames.
~ Alice Notley
Have I come from another world to inhabit this body of mine?
~ Alice Notley
I couldn't stop thinking, my thoughts kept attacking my head; I was my angry thoughts, but I also watched them.
~ Alice Notley
for everything I am is my mind, that never leaves me.
~ Alice Notley
we can laugh at it sorrowfully
~ Alice Notley
Don't think of yourself as a rare sacrifice, blood has no beauty
~ Alice Notley
I'm sickened by all the suffering I'm aware of.
~ Alice Notley
Can't I go lonely to bed?
~ Alice Notley
I want to know why my loves had to die.
~ Alice Notley
I wonder who I will know when I die, if anyone.
~ Alice Notley
I don't want to bother anyone anymore, I try to stay still.
~ Alice Notley
I want to know the thing that will justify my time, all the time I've spent doing shit jobs. Stupid work.
~ Alice Notley
I have so many ideas! I'm so full of thought I can't remember what I look like.
~ Alice Notley
Everything we have done we can come to despise
~ Alice Notley
Which one of us was more? He was always more.
~ Alice Notley
We are our songs and films.
~ Alice Notley
A world like a boat passing by, and perhaps another on the dark water.
~ Alice Notley