Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.
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
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
The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're doing. - Eileen Myles
The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're doing.
I always think of childhood as the inarticulate moment, and you have your little camera. You were filming it, recording it, you just didn't know how … - Eileen Myles
I always think of childhood as the inarticulate moment, and you have your little camera. You were filming it, recording it, you just didn't know how …
People loved to talk about how Frank O'Hara didn't really care about getting published. That doesn't jibe with my experience. - Eileen Myles
People loved to talk about how Frank O'Hara didn't really care about getting published. That doesn't jibe with my experience.
I was a working-class kid from Boston. But I never lost my accent because I felt like that was what I was doing. I didn't have to perform Woody Guthr… - Eileen Myles
I was a working-class kid from Boston. But I never lost my accent because I felt like that was what I was doing. I didn't have to perform Woody Guthr…
I wonder, would I have transitioned from female to male if I was 30 years younger? Possibly. But if I had been born even 30 years later, because it s… - Eileen Myles
I wonder, would I have transitioned from female to male if I was 30 years younger? Possibly. But if I had been born even 30 years later, because it s…
People love discovering you. The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs, you're their frien… - Eileen Myles
People love discovering you. The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs, you're their frien…
Women aren't physically afraid of men; women are genetically afraid of men. It's happened for such a long time. - Eileen Myles
Women aren't physically afraid of men; women are genetically afraid of men. It's happened for such a long time.
Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I am alone. - Eileen Myles
Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I am alone.
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