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The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down.
Written by Eileen Myles
Evolution is not an even process. There are surges, and there are micromoments. Certainly a career as an artist is that way.
Written by Eileen Myles
Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy.
Written by Eileen Myles
As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary.
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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.
Written by Eileen Myles
A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us.
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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 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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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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Everybody loved me running for president in '91 and '92 because they never knew a presidential candidate before.
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I thought 'Chelsea Girls' was going to change my life.
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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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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.
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I always aimed at being a legend.
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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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I wake up with a sense of wonder. I don't dread the future. I like it.
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I tend to view my life as an accident, almost as a dream.
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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.
Written by Eileen Myles
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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Lyndon Johnson, I know for a fact, was a great president. And I don't mean by that he was a great man.
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Older men get lovable, and older women get monstrous.
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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.
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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.
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When we have relationships with animals, we often make up who they are.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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.
Written by Eileen Myles

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