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Women aren't physically afraid of men; women are genetically afraid of men. It's happened for such a long time.
— Eileen Myles
The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down.
— Eileen Myles
Older men get lovable, and older women get monstrous.
— Eileen Myles
Fred Moten is a poet I really love because he changes who is telling the poem all the time.
— Eileen Myles
I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet.
— Eileen Myles
I've had a lifelong waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop feeling when something good happens.
— Eileen Myles
Sometimes in utter hopelessness I put my cheek on the table like it was someone. I wanted to wake my brain up and be loved.
— Eileen Myles
And how are your teeth tonight?Can you afford to fix them? — Eileen Myles
Everybody loved me running for president in '91 and '92 because they never knew a presidential candidate before.
— Eileen Myles
Time passes. That's for sure.
— Eileen Myles
Lyndon Johnson, I know for a fact, was a great president. And I don't mean by that he was a great man.
— Eileen Myles
I thought 'Chelsea Girls' was going to change my life.
— Eileen Myles
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
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.
— Eileen Myles
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.
— Eileen Myles
Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy.
— Eileen Myles
Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.
— Eileen Myles
The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs: you're their friend.
— Eileen Myles
Already I know it will hurt this is the hurt country
— Eileen Myles
I always aimed at being a legend.
— Eileen Myles
I'm the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years.
— Eileen Myles
The bag I wanted was beyond reason - something to hold my poems, twice as big as the universe and it must be androgynous.
— Eileen Myles
I tend to view my life as an accident, almost as a dream.
— Eileen Myles
A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us.
— Eileen Myles
I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live. Reading by reading, I just kind of follow my nose.
— Eileen Myles
Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.
— Eileen Myles
I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor.
— Eileen Myles
If there is something I will always carry in my heart it is this earnest unwillingness to be part of the bunch,
— Eileen Myles
Evolution is not an even process. There are surges, and there are micromoments. Certainly a career as an artist is that way.
— Eileen Myles
I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will.
— Eileen Myles
I am always hungry and wanting to have sex. This is a fact.
— Eileen Myles
