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Eileen Myles Quotes

American - Poet | December 9, 1949 -

Who doesn't want to be famous? I am famous. I'm dying to be on TV.

I Am Famous Want Dying Who TV

I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet.

College American Literature You Know

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

Happy Energy Kind Human Human Being

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

Love Time Changes Poet Because Poem

I'm the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years.

World Weird Years Poet Her Paid

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

Writing Proud Poor Never Being

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.

Time Job Me Care You Talk

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.

Work Love Relationship Challenge You

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

Time First Time First Out Poem Loud

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.

Stars Men Poetry Wind Celebrate Up

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.

Men Step Writing Think Television

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.

Art Me Writing Thought America Just

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