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" I always aimed at being a legend. "
Eileen Myles
Being
Always
Legend
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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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" Everybody loved me running for president in '91 and '92 because they never knew a presidential candidate before. "
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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 really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live. Reading by reading, I just kind of follow my nose. "
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" As a human being, I'm kind of a cheery melancholic. I have energy; I'm happy. "
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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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" 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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Family
" 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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Greatness
Love
" 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. "
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" Older men get lovable, and older women get monstrous. "
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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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" I'm the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years. "
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Her
" When we have relationships with animals, we often make up who they are. "
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Relationships
Up
" It's a big statement if you use the word 'America' in the title of your poem. "
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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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" I'm not against wealth; I just think everybody should have it, same as health. "
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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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" 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. "
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" The first time I voted, I voted for Eugene McCarthy and I knew he wouldn't win, but it felt so great to vote for him, to vote for the right guy - the one who wanted peace. "
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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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Words
You
" 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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" 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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" I wake up with a sense of wonder. I don't dread the future. I like it. "
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Sense
" 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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" Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You're always home. "
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Living