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

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 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

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

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

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

Women aren't physically afraid of men; women are genetically afraid of men. It's happened for such a long time.

- 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.

- Eileen Myles