Quotes by Eileen Myles

Eileen Myles

Poetry is my politics. It’s an opportunity that gives me a way to speak.

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The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we’re standing, we’re doing stand-up. That’s exactly what we’re doing.

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Poet

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Time passes. That’s for sure.

Time Passes

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Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.

Scribes

Sometimes

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When people decide to talk publicly about poetry as an art form and how it’s received, they often get very abject about it: “Nobody reads poetry,” and then a thousand people write back, “No, we read poetry.” There’s an abundance of this negative preaching to the choir, and it’s very similar to the experience I’m having.

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