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Eileen Myles
Eileen Myles
American Poet
Born: Dec 9, 1949
Love Me Think Time Writing You
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman
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. Eileen Myles
Time Good You Long Long Time Way Kind Bad Good Ones Poems Bad Ones Poetry Crowds Through Selection Bottom Long Time Ago Feel Fell Came Up Act Your Forward Away
I didn't know how to write a novel, so I sort of let it happen in waves. The only way I could write it was to think like scenes in a movie. Eileen Myles
Think Waves Way Only Scenes Could Write Like Know Sort How Movie Happen Novel
I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will. Eileen Myles
Myself Will Made Poet First First Thing Because The First Thing Loved Really Act Thing
Who doesn't want to be famous? I am famous. I'm dying to be on TV. Eileen Myles
TV Am Famous Want Dying Who
Fred Moten is a poet I really love because he changes who is telling the poem all the time. Eileen Myles
Love Time Poet Changes Telling Fred Poem He Because Really Who
I'm the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years. Eileen Myles
World Poet Weird Dues Years Experimental Paid Who Her
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
Time Me You Care Job Master Own Once About Only Talk Because Up Get Just Room Worked Really Your Show Teaching Ever
The most exciting thing is to read a poem out loud for the first time. Eileen Myles
Time First Out Poem Exciting Most Read First Time Loud Thing
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
Writing Men Think Books Say Television Step Genres Making Making Movies Years Stop Arts Movies Should Certainly Away
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
Art Me Writing Complicated Too Much Thought Too Later Pleasure Would Would-Be Somehow Idea Perhaps Liked Lot Reviews America Just Decided Realized Much Whole
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
Family Smart Three Group Those Kids Bad Able Like Liked Lot Middle Being Children Groups Included
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
Love Feelings Our Marks Rising Poetry Feel Devotion Making Falling Lists Novels
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. Eileen Myles
Funny You Dog Changing Ways Those Moods Bad Constantly Some Attached Feel Look Because Person Them Moment Whose Things
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. Eileen Myles
Love You Hate Amazing Somebody Wish Go Away Think Those Would Poem Poems Written Go Love You Anymore Them Away
Older men get lovable, and older women get monstrous. Eileen Myles
Women Men Older Monstrous Get Lovable Older Men Older Women
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
Love Think Later Drawings About Songs Like Sounds Cave Stories Literature Us
Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy. Eileen Myles
Democracy Key Poetry Piece Always
As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary. Eileen Myles
Better Worse More Poetry Because Becomes Get Gets Things Necessary
A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us. Eileen Myles
Business Vote Voting Feels Like Most Which Us Should Usual
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 Will Girl Big Reading Side Book Tour Books Give Having Tour Like Most Because Audiences Sell Person Scout Want Used Cookies Who
I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live. Reading by reading, I just kind of follow my nose. Eileen Myles
Love Reading Live Favorite Kind Favorite Thing Follow Poems Performing Just Nose Just Kind Really Thing
Everybody loved me running for president in '91 and '92 because they never knew a presidential candidate before. Eileen Myles
Me Before Everybody President Presidential Running Never Knew Because Candidate Loved
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. Eileen Myles
Big Live Poetry Perfect House Around Big House Move Afraid Being Size Want Poor
I've had a lifelong waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop feeling when something good happens. Eileen Myles
Good Feeling Something Something Good Lifelong Had Happens
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. Eileen Myles
Big Sit Own Down About Onstage Glass Like Hillary Hillary Clinton Clinton Campaign Campaign Contributions Contributions Banks Ask Her
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 Style Past Starts Else Way About Something Something Else Writing Style Weirdly Becomes Cultural Mean
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