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" As a human being, I'm kind of a cheery melancholic. I have energy; I'm happy. "
Eileen Myles
Energy
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" As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later, stories about us. "
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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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" 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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" I tend to view my life as an accident, almost as a dream. "
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" I was like the family clown. The middle child entertaining. I was a lousy student, but interestingly, the nuns always let me write plays or do drawings, endless special projects. "
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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. "
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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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" 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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" I thought 'Chelsea Girls' was going to change my life. "
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" 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. "
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" Fred Moten is a poet I really love because he changes who is telling the poem all the time. "
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Time
" 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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" The only job that ever really worked for me was teaching because you are your own master once you get into the room. You just have to show up on time and talk about what you care about. "
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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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" Everybody loved me running for president in '91 and '92 because they never knew a presidential candidate before. "
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Loved
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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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Feel
Look
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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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" With Instagram, you're captioning a moment. Twitter is the caption without the image. Even if it's there, the words come first. "
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" Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy. "
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" Evolution is not an even process. There are surges, and there are micromoments. Certainly a career as an artist is that way. "
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" 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. "
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" Lyndon Johnson, I know for a fact, was a great president. And I don't mean by that he was a great man. "
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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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Family
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" When I'm writing the poem, I feel like I have to close my eyes. I don't mean literally, but you invite a kind of blindness, and that's the birth of the 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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Her
" 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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You
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" Having big audiences when you're on a book tour is like Valhalla if you're a person who used to sell Girl Scout cookies on the side. Because you want to give the reading that will sell the most books. "
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