Ass Quote by Alice Notley

“There isn’t any way to be. I will meet you where you’ve gone. The cards are blank; the cards are empty there. If I…

— Alice Notley

“We name us and then we are lost, tamed I choose words, more words, to cure the tameness, not the wildness”

— Alice Notley

“oh each poet’s a beautiful human girl who must die.”

— Alice Notley

“ ‘You are your” “Past, Present,” “& Future,’ he said” ” ‘You divide into” “those components” “in this room’ ” ” ‘But I do…

— Alice Notley

“What did you do in your songs? I don’t know, I’ll never know, you say. Someone else will write them about me, won’t they?…

— Alice Notley

“I want this noise within me to die down.”

— Alice Notley

In love there is no because.

— Alice Notley

“Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one.”

— Alice Notley

“And if you’re referring to your anguish, it’s just a thing. The shape of a trailor, a wheel, or a knife. Leave the details…

— Alice Notley

Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.

— Alice Notley

I'm not an expert in the deck at all. My interest lies somewhere near a sense that words are like tarot cards, and that…

— Alice Notley

“I can’t translate myself into language any more.”

— Alice Notley