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 Read Quote
I’m not against wealth; I just think everybody should have it, same as health. Eileen Myles Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Eileen Myles Read Quote
Lyndon Johnson, I know for a fact, was a great president. And I don’t mean by that he was a great man. Eileen Myles Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Eileen Myles Read Quote
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. Eileen Myles Read Quote
