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Alice Notley Quotes

It's necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against...everything.

It's necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against...everything.

Alice Notley
States, Disobedience
"'At the Mercy of My Poetic Voice': An Interview with Alice Notley". Interview with Lindsay Turner, bostonreview.net. November 12, 2013.

I do utterly despise dailiness as it stands. I can't abide what the world has become, the frozen-ness of our product this evil thing that we kiss the ass of every hour. I want a dailiness that is free and beautiful

Alice Notley
Beautiful, Kissing, Evil

In love there is no because.

Alice Notley
Alice Notley (2007). “In the Pines”, p.29, Penguin

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 a poem manipulates unpredictable depths with its words. . . . I like the tarot because it works like poetry and because you don't really have to 'believe in' anything. It's there to be used. The symbols are remarkably durable and beautiful; they float out to encompass all kinds of meanings.

Alice Notley
Beautiful, Lying, Believe

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

Alice Notley
Writing, Poetry Is, Writing Poetry
"A Quick Interview With Alice Notley". Interview with Corey Zeller, ampersandreview.com. May 11, 2014.

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

Alice Notley
Alice Notley (2007). “In the Pines”, p.57, Penguin

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