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I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous. — Eileen Myles

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

The most exciting thing is to read a poem out loud for the first time. — Eileen Myles

It's a big statement if you use the word 'America' in the title of your poem. — 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'm not against wealth; I just think everybody should have it, same as health. — 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

If boys were always trying to get in girls' pants, what did they want? What could the girls give them? Pee it seemed to me was an appropriate gift. — Eileen Myles

As a human being, I'm kind of a cheery melancholic. I have energy; I'm happy. — 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

The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're doing. — Eileen Myles

When we have relationships with animals, we often make up who they are. — 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

I love Canada, and I dated someone who was Canadian a few years ago, and she brought me into a deeper understanding of the greatness of the culture. — 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

I wake up with a sense of wonder. I don't dread the future. I like it. — Eileen Myles

Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy. — Eileen Myles

Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak. — Eileen Myles

Who doesn't want to be famous? I am famous. I'm dying to be on TV. — 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 didn't know how to write a novel, so I sort of let it happen in waves. The only way I could write it was to think like scenes in a movie. — 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'd like to sit down with Hillary Clinton onstage and ask her about Glass Steagall and all the big banks and her own campaign contributions. — Eileen Myles

As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary. — Eileen Myles

I am always hungry and wanting to have sex. This is a fact. — Eileen Myles

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

People loved to talk about how Frank O'Hara didn't really care about getting published. That doesn't jibe with my experience. — Eileen Myles