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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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With Instagram, you're captioning a moment. Twitter is the caption without the image. Even if it's there, the words come first.
Eileen Myles
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If you have a dog, and you're a person whose moods are constantly changing, there's a moment when you look at the dog, and you feel bad for them because they're attached to you, and so it's funny for the dog to vocalize those things in some ways.
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Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy.
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As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary.
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Poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling.
Eileen Myles