Quotes by : Eileen Myles

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

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

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....

Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the....

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

If the poetry world celebrate its female stars at the true level of their productivity and influence,....

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.....