Eileen Myles Quotes
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It's a big statement if you use the word 'America' in the title of your poem.
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I'm the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years.
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Who doesn't want to be famous? I am famous. I'm dying to be on TV.
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I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry. I can move around.
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If the poetry world celebrate its female stars at the true level of their productivity and influence, poetry would wind up being a largely female world, and the men would leave.
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I'm not against wealth; I just think everybody should have it, same as health.
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I thought 'Chelsea Girls' was going to change my life.
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Dogs are a companion species. It's about time - you have an animal for about 15, 16 years, a generation. That time holds so much. You might have had five or six relationships with human beings but one dog.
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A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us.
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Sunday is a likely day to write a poem. Because poetry is a piece of language flying around: you'll find notebooks, something on your phone. It's about finding them and getting them off that crumpled piece of paper and onto my computer.
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If I had been a good student and an achiever, I might have been excited by a more systematic approach to writing than what I do.
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When somebody's in love with you, they think it's amazing you've written them a poem, and when they don't love you anymore, they hate those poems. They wish those poems would go away.
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I wake up with a sense of wonder. I don't dread the future. I like it.
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I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet.
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In my family, I'm the middle of three, and I'm like a lot of middle children. I was one of those kids that floated from group to group. I liked being able to be included in all the groups - the bad kids, the smart kids.
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I've grown to love Barack Obama. Hillary is no Bernie Sanders. But she's a politician, and she understands Congress. And I think with that kind of twisted beauty, she could lead our country.
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I tend to view my life as an accident, almost as a dream.
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The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs: you're their friend.
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Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems. The good ones came forward a long time ago, and the bad ones fell away.
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Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy.
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As a human being, I'm kind of a cheery melancholic. I have energy; I'm happy.
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Older men get lovable, and older women get monstrous.
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To be a poet, it's a challenge to do it in poverty, to do it in wealth. To do it in the academy, to do it in a relationship where you're happy. Everything changes the game. To do it in the awkward state of love, despair, dying. You just have to work it.
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Weirdly, the past starts to be about something else. It becomes about style in a way that it wasn't about, and I don't mean writing style, but cultural style.