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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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" 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. "

Eileen Myles

Writing

Way

Style

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

Eileen Myles

I Am

Famous

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

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

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I wake up with a sense of wonder. I don't dread the future. I like it. "

Eileen Myles

Future

Sense

" I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will. "

" 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. "

" I tend to view my life as an accident, almost as a dream. "

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

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

" The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down. "

" 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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

" 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

" I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live. Reading by reading, I just kind of follow my nose. "

" It's a big statement if you use the word 'America' in the title of your poem. "

" 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. "

" 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. "