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Certain Magical Acts QUOTES

Certain Magical Acts QUOTES

1 " If you remember better times
you know they were lies, because they led
to this "

― Alice Notley , Certain Magical Acts

2 " I'm the one who has no
small feelings "

― Alice Notley , Certain Magical Acts

3 " I want to go back to where I once lived,
but it isn't there anymore; that one of me
isn't here. "

― Alice Notley , Certain Magical Acts

4 " I wanted him to
love me, but then that wasn't enough. "

― Alice Notley , Certain Magical Acts

5 " I went
to a place like another planet where I felt good
without wanting something. "

― Alice Notley , Certain Magical Acts

6 " cry out with me turn on the lights "

― Alice Notley , Certain Magical Acts

7 " Come apart in my mouth. "

― Alice Notley , Certain Magical Acts

8 " I like it in hell—I always have. "

― Alice Notley , Certain Magical Acts

9 " when someone reads poems
I exist to
be the one who's feeling it. "

― Alice Notley , Certain Magical Acts

10 " I'm alive and dead now,
at the same time,
speaking in your poems. "

― Alice Notley , Certain Magical Acts

11 " You're too lazy, passive
to suffer. I do that for you too. "

― Alice Notley , Certain Magical Acts

12 " We
hate the ones who are spontaneously different, as if
what they loved accused us of unhappiness. "

― Alice Notley , Certain Magical Acts

13 " We could never sit at this kitchen table
without our terrible and beautiful past and our poems that tell us
who we are. "

― Alice Notley , Certain Magical Acts

14 " Are you in pain, my darling? There's no pain here but
the psychic; you're afloat in a blood-sticky unuttered scream. "

― Alice Notley , Certain Magical Acts

15 " We know ourselves in the extinguishable
light, but we know ourselves in another universe "

― Alice Notley , Certain Magical Acts

16 " I seem to love you, though I never see you. "

― Alice Notley , Certain Magical Acts

17 " I have just transcended my epoch; I am alive outside written memory. "

― Alice Notley , Certain Magical Acts

18 " You entered this hall in your moonlit unconsciousness pleading
for a different life. "

― Alice Notley , Certain Magical Acts

19 " why
can't I just live?

Why can't I
just live? "

― Alice Notley , Certain Magical Acts

20 " Another way to say it: we are each the whole thing, and I merge with you when I wish. "

― Alice Notley , Certain Magical Acts