American - Poet | December 9, 1949 -
I always aimed at being a legend.
Eileen Myles
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Dogs are a companion species. It's about time - you have an animal for about 15, 16 years, a generation. That time holds so much. You might have had five or six relationships with human beings but one dog.
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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.
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Having big audiences when you're on a book tour is like Valhalla if you're a person who used to sell Girl Scout cookies on the side. Because you want to give the reading that will sell the most books.
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As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary.
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With Instagram, you're captioning a moment. Twitter is the caption without the image. Even if it's there, the words come first.
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Weirdly, the past starts to be about something else. It becomes about style in a way that it wasn't about, and I don't mean writing style, but cultural style.
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When we have relationships with animals, we often make up who they are.
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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.
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The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down.
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Evolution is not an even process. There are surges, and there are micromoments. Certainly a career as an artist is that way.
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Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy.
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