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" 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. "

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" The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs: you're their friend. "

Eileen Myles

Friend

Everyone

" 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. "

" 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

Writing

Good

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Older men get lovable, and older women get monstrous. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Lyndon Johnson, I know for a fact, was a great president. And I don't mean by that he was a great man. "

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

Eileen Myles

Future

Sense

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

Eileen Myles

Who

Relationships

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Eileen Myles

You

Book

" When somebody's in love with you, they think it's amazing you've written them a poem, and when they don't love you anymore, they hate those poems. They wish those poems would go away. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Eileen Myles

Job

Care

" Somehow, the whole idea of me writing art reviews was just too much of a complicated thought, but I liked art, and later on I just realized that it would be perhaps a pleasure, and so I decided to do it for 'Art in America' - a lot. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "