Quotes by : Eileen Myles

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

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....

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

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

Sunday is a likely day to write a poem. Because poetry is a piece of language flying around: you'll find....

When somebody's in love with you, they think it's amazing you've written them a poem, and when they don't....

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.....