In the Pines
Alice Notley
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one.”
“And maybe you can’t know me now. Maybe I’m just blood. Whatever that’s for.”
“I knew you were in charge of me but my mind broke on its own.”
“I didn't care much what happened to me, so chance didn't matter.”
“Jack of diamonds is a hard card, why should there be a story? It’s too hard a card to please, and it isn’t the no earth I know. I got hepatitis C from shooting speed thirty-three years ago.”
“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? I looked into a void of love. And I fell down. There was nothing else there. No where, where I was no one. But I have to sing this song. I’m still here.”
“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 can just have one last cut. Do you have a plan for the new? The cards be blank. The symbols be over. I will tell my fortune with the blank cards of blank. What do you see?”
“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 of your life and find another one.”
“I confess I meant to grow wings and lose my mind. I confess that I've forgotten what for.”
“Feeling awful is physiological you say. God I hate you, I say. Yes you can find the neurons for feeling awful. Do you think you can find the neurons for the fact I hate you?”
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