Quotes by : Eileen Myles

We're basking in language itself. The silence of my friend. My love. The one beyond words in her silence.....

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

As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary.

The bag I wanted was beyond reason - something to hold my poems, twice as big as the universe and it....

Sometimes in utter hopelessness I put my cheek on the table like it was someone. I wanted to wake my....

Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy.

What happened was private. I was in it with Rose. She had hurt me grievously and now I was forever attached.....

I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry.....

In Arlington, people would laugh at you if you tried to get people to look at your drawings or listen....

Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems.....