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 Read Quote
It’s a big statement if you use the word ‘America’ in the title of your poem. Eileen Myles Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will. Eileen Myles Read Quote
Sunday is a likely day to write a poem. Because poetry is a piece of language flying around: you’ll find notebooks, something on your phone. It’s about finding them and getting them off that crumpled piece of paper and onto my computer. Eileen Myles Read Quote
I’ve had a lifelong waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop feeling when something good happens. Eileen Myles Read Quote
