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I'm the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years.

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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As a human being, I'm kind of a cheery melancholic. I have energy; I'm happy.

Eileen Myles

I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet.

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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'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor.

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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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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.

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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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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

Who doesn't want to be famous? I am famous. I'm dying to be on TV.

Eileen Myles

I'm the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years.

Eileen Myles

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

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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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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I wake up with a sense of wonder. I don't dread the future. I like it.

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Poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling.

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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.

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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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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.

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I always aimed at being a legend.

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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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The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down.

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

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I thought 'Chelsea Girls' was going to change my life.

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