Top 54 Quotes by Eileen Myles

I was like the family clown. The middle child entertaining. I was a lousy student, but interestingly, the nuns always let me write plays or do drawings, endless special projects.

Older men get lovable, and older women get monstrous.

When somebody's in love with you, they think it's amazing you've written them a poem, and when they don't love you anymore, they hate those poems. They wish those poems would go away.

Fred Moten is a poet I really love because he changes who is telling the poem all the time.

As a human being, I'm kind of a cheery melancholic. I have energy; I'm happy.

I didn't know how to write a novel, so I sort of let it happen in waves. The only way I could write it was to think like scenes in a movie.

In Arlington, people would laugh at you if you tried to get people to look at your drawings or listen to your poetry. It was like you thought you were special.

It's a big statement if you use the word 'America' in the title of your poem.

If I had been a good student and an achiever, I might have been excited by a more systematic approach to writing than what I do.

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