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" I tend to view my life as an accident, almost as a dream. "
Eileen Myles
My Life
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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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" 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'm the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You're always home. "
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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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" I'm not against wealth; I just think everybody should have it, same as health. "
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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 thought 'Chelsea Girls' was going to change my life. "
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" Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I've had a lifelong waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop feeling when something good happens. "
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" The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down. "
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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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