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 Read Quote
Everybody loved me running for president in ’91 and ’92 because they never knew a presidential candidate before. Eileen Myles Read Quote
The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you’re theirs: you’re their friend. Eileen Myles Read Quote
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 Read Quote
With Instagram, you’re captioning a moment. Twitter is the caption without the image. Even if it’s there, the words come first. Eileen Myles Read Quote
In Arlington, people would laugh at you if you tried to get people to look at your drawings or listen to your poetry. It was like you thought you were special. Eileen Myles Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Eileen Myles Read Quote
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 Read Quote
