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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. "
Eileen Myles
Way
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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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" The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs: you're their friend. "
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Everyone
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" I'm not against wealth; I just think everybody should have it, same as health. "
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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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" 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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Thought
" 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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" 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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Language
Poetry
" 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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Stars
Wind
Celebrate
" Poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling. "
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Love
" Evolution is not an even process. There are surges, and there are micromoments. Certainly a career as an artist is that way. "
Eileen Myles
Artist
Career
Evolution
" 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. "
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School
Bad
Writing
" I always aimed at being a legend. "
Eileen Myles
Being
Always
Legend
" I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will. "
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Myself
Loved
Act
" 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. "
Eileen Myles
Peace
Win
Vote
" The most exciting thing is to read a poem out loud for the first time. "
Eileen Myles
Time
Out
Poem
" 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
Great
Mean
Know
" I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor. "
Eileen Myles
Proud
Never
Being
" 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. "
Eileen Myles
Forward
Good
Long
" 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. "
Eileen Myles
Work
Love
Relationship
" 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. "
Eileen Myles
Cave
Literature
Love
" 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
Kind
Nose
Live
" 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
Her
Down
Sit
" I'm the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years. "
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World
Who
Her
" 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
Without
Words
You
" Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You're always home. "
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Home
Best
Living
" 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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More
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" As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary. "
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Poetry
" Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy. "
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Poetry
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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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Animal
You
Time
" I tend to view my life as an accident, almost as a dream. "
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