Top 54 Quotes by Eileen Myles

With Instagram, you're captioning a moment. Twitter is the caption without the image. Even if it's there, the words come first.

I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live. Reading by reading, I just kind of follow my nose.

A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us.

Lyndon Johnson, I know for a fact, was a great president. And I don't mean by that he was a great man.

I'd like to sit down with Hillary Clinton onstage and ask her about Glass Steagall and all the big banks and her own campaign contributions.

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.

Evolution is not an even process. There are surges, and there are micromoments. Certainly a career as an artist is that way.

When we have relationships with animals, we often make up who they are.

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.

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.