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All Quotes by author - Eileen Myles

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

" As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary. "

" A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us. "

" Certainly in the arts, in all genres, I think that men should step away. I think men should stop writing books. I think men should stop making movies or television. Say, for 50 to 100 years. "

" 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. "

" Everybody loved me running for president in '91 and '92 because they never knew a presidential candidate before. "

" Evolution is not an even process. There are surges, and there are micromoments. Certainly a career as an artist is that way. "

" Fred Moten is a poet I really love because he changes who is telling the poem all the time. "

" 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. "

" I always aimed at being a legend. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will. "

" I'm not against wealth; I just think everybody should have it, same as health. "

" I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor. "

" I'm the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years. "

" I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet. "

" In Arlington, people would laugh at you if you tried to get people to look at your drawings or listen to your poetry. It was like you thought you were special. "

" 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. "

" I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live. Reading by reading, I just kind of follow my nose. "

" I started writing poems, and when I first tried prose, I wrote bad articles and essays and columns, and I didn't have a handle on it. I didn't go to a school that really taught you how to write that stuff. "

" I tend to view my life as an accident, almost as a dream. "

" I thought 'Chelsea Girls' was going to change my life. "

" It's a big statement if you use the word 'America' in the title of your poem. "

" 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. "

" I've had a lifelong waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop feeling when something good happens. "

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