Quotes by Eileen Myles

Eileen Myles

Art feels like it has this frame, and it’s either outside or inside.

Art

Feels

I always think of childhood as the inarticulate moment, and you have your little camera. You were filming it, recording it, you just didn’t know how to speak it.

Cameras

Childhood

Thinking

I am always hungry and wanting to have sex. This is a fact.

Facts

Hungry

Sex

I hope you all find yourselves sleeping with someone you love, maybe not all of the time, but a lot of the time. The touch of a foot in the night is sincere. I hope you like your work, I hope there’s mystery and poetry in your life — not even poems, but patterns. I hope you can see them. Often these patterns will wake you up, and you will know that you are alive, again and again.

Feet

Night

Sleep

I really just love reading. It’s my favorite thing, performing my poems live.

Favorites Things

My Favorite

Reading

I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that was so raw and funny, and I think we’re in the next important moment of television, where it’s really telling the epic of the culture like Charles Dickens was doing in the 19th century with his serialized novels.

Epic

Thinking

Writing

I was a working-class kid from Boston. But I never lost my accent because I felt like that was what I was doing. I didn’t have to perform Woody Guthrie like Bob Dylan did in the ’60s, I just had to make myself be Eileen Myles and let that be my shield.

Boston

Class

Kids

I’m a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.

Eras

Generations

Poet

Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later, stories about us. Part of what we always did was have sex and fight about it and break each other’s hearts. I guess there’s other kinds of love too. Great friendships. Working together. But poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling. Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You’re always home.

Fall

Sex

Song

People loved to talk about how Frank O’Hara didn’t really care about getting published. That doesn’t jibe with my experience.

Care

Frank

People

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Art

Boston

Cameras

Care

Childhood

Class

Epic

Eras

Facts

Fall

Favorites Things

Feels

Feet

Fool

Frank

Generations

Giving

Hungry

Kids

My Favorite

Night

Opportunity

People

Poet

Reading

Scribes

Sex

Sleep

Sometimes

Song

Thinking

Time Passes

Urban

Way

Wise

Writing

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Quotes by Eileen Myles

Eileen Myles

Art feels like it has this frame, and it’s either outside or inside.

I always think of childhood as the inarticulate moment, and you have your little camera. You were filming it, recording it, you just didn’t know how to speak it.

I am always hungry and wanting to have sex. This is a fact.

I really just love reading. It’s my favorite thing, performing my poems live.

I was a working-class kid from Boston. But I never lost my accent because I felt like that was what I was doing. I didn’t have to perform Woody Guthrie like Bob Dylan did in the ’60s, I just had to make myself be Eileen Myles and let that be my shield.

I’m a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.

People loved to talk about how Frank O’Hara didn’t really care about getting published. That doesn’t jibe with my experience.

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