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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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" Poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling. "

Eileen Myles

Poetry

Feelings

Love

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Who doesn't want to be famous? I am famous. I'm dying to be on TV. "

Eileen Myles

I Am

Famous

" Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You're always home. "

" The most exciting thing is to read a poem out loud for the first time. "

" 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

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

Eileen Myles

Who

Relationships

" 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. "

" I've had a lifelong waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop feeling when something good happens. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry. I can move around. "

" A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us. "

Eileen Myles

Most

" I always aimed at being a legend. "

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

" As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary. "

" I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor. "

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

" I'm the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years. "

" I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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

" With Instagram, you're captioning a moment. Twitter is the caption without the image. Even if it's there, the words come first. "

" Everybody loved me running for president in '91 and '92 because they never knew a presidential candidate before. "