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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. "
Eileen Myles
Her
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Sit
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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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" A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us. "
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" Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I wake up with a sense of wonder. I don't dread the future. I like it. "
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" Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You're always home. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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 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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" 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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" 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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" Who doesn't want to be famous? I am famous. I'm dying to be on TV. "
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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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" Everybody loved me running for president in '91 and '92 because they never knew a presidential candidate before. "
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