Mysteries of Small Houses Quotes

“We name us and then we are lost, tamed
I choose words, more words, to cure the tameness, not the wildness”
― Alice Notley, Mysteries of Small Houses

“A sex isn’t very deep but its
surface is armor ironmasked
like certain poetries I can’t use
how be what you are what’s experience but
a becoming acceptable to the keepers
of surface say this University
So glad I don’t have to write
in the styles of the poetries I was taught
they were beautiful and unlike me
positing a formal, stylized woman.
But I am the poet, without a doubt.
Experience is a hoax.”
― Alice Notley, Mysteries of Small Houses