Alice Notley quotes
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“In love there is no because.”
-- Alice NotleySource : Alice Notley (2007). “In the Pines”, p.29, Penguin
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“It's necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against...everything.”
-- Alice NotleySource : "'At the Mercy of My Poetic Voice': An Interview with Alice Notley". Interview with Lindsay Turner, bostonreview.net. November 12, 2013.
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“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.”
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“Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.”
-- Alice NotleySource : "A Quick Interview With Alice Notley". Interview with Corey Zeller, ampersandreview.com. May 11, 2014.
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“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 ***** of every hour. I want a dailiness that is free and beautiful”
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“Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one.”
-- Alice NotleySource : Alice Notley (2007). “In the Pines”, p.57, Penguin
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