Alice Notley Quotes

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.

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

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

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

In love there is no because.

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