Category - Eileen Myles

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Eileen Myles

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

– Eileen Myles

Eileen Myles

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

Eileen Myles

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

Eileen Myles

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

– Eileen Myles

Eileen Myles

In my family, I’m the middle of three, and I’m like a lot of middle children. I was one of those kids that floated from group to group. I liked being able to be included in all the groups – the bad kids, the smart kids.

– Eileen Myles

Eileen Myles

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.

– Eileen Myles

Eileen Myles

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.

– Eileen Myles

Eileen Myles

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.

– Eileen Myles

Eileen Myles

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.

– Eileen Myles

Eileen Myles

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.

– Eileen Myles

Eileen Myles

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.

– Eileen Myles

Eileen Myles

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

– Eileen Myles

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