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I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor.

~Eileen Myles

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The only job that ever really worked for me was teaching because you are your own master once you get into the room. You just have to show up on time and talk about what you care about.

~Eileen Myles

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To be a poet, it's a challenge to do it in poverty, to do it in wealth. To do it in the academy, to do it in a relationship where you're happy. Everything changes the game. To do it in the awkward state of love, despair, dying. You just have to work it.

~Eileen Myles

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The most exciting thing is to read a poem out loud for the first time.

~Eileen Myles

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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

Topics: Birth Blindness Close Eyes Feel Invite Kind Like Literally Mean Poem Writing You I Feel I Feel Like

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If the poetry world celebrate its female stars at the true level of their productivity and influence, poetry would wind up being a largely female world, and the men would leave.

~Eileen Myles

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Certainly in the arts, in all genres, I think that men should step away. I think men should stop writing books. I think men should stop making movies or television. Say, for 50 to 100 years.

~Eileen Myles

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Somehow, the whole idea of me writing art reviews was just too much of a complicated thought, but I liked art, and later on I just realized that it would be perhaps a pleasure, and so I decided to do it for 'Art in America' - a lot.

~Eileen Myles

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I love Canada, and I dated someone who was Canadian a few years ago, and she brought me into a deeper understanding of the greatness of the culture.

~Eileen Myles

Topics: Brought Canada Canadian Culture Dated Deeper Few Greatness Love Me She Someone Understanding Who Years Years Ago I Love

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I started writing poems, and when I first tried prose, I wrote bad articles and essays and columns, and I didn't have a handle on it. I didn't go to a school that really taught you how to write that stuff.

~Eileen Myles

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: December 9th, 1949

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