Eileen Myles Quotes

Sunday is a likely day to write a poem. Because poetry is a piece of language flying around: you'll find notebooks, something on your phone. It's about finding them and getting them off that crumpled piece of paper and onto my computer.

Eileen Myles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 9, 1949

Topics

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Things have to be funny first, and if they want to have a point, that's awesome.

John Mulaney

FunnyWantFirstAwesomePoint

Because the better an organization is at fulfilling its purpose, the more it attracts people who see the organization as an opportunity to advance themselves.

Robert Shea

OpportunityPurposePeopleBetter

Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don't, it doesn't matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, 'D'oh!'

Matt Groening

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Anti-parent music seems to be all the pop-rock market wants.

Amity Shlaes

MusicSeemsMarketWantsPop-Rock

Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.

Steven Van Zandt

FamilyFriendshipCommunityMeRock

The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine.

Ruth Rendell

StoryComplicatedOldMineApply

I carry music in my head, so I don't need more. It drives me nuts that, in hotels or on boats, people seem to think you need music 24 hours a day.

Miranda Richardson

MusicDayPeopleMeThinkYou

The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter.

Lizz Winstead

PoliticalMatterLineBottomOwn

Ever since I first started acting I've wanted to have a long career.

Josh Hutcherson

LongCareerActingFirstStarted

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Joseph Campbell

LifeYouPrivilegeBeingLifetime

Yom HaShoah is a vital day in the Jewish calendar, providing us with a focal point for our remembrance. We cannot bring the dead back to life, but we can bring their memory back to life and ensure they are not forgotten. We can undertake in our lives to do what they were so cruelly prevented from doing in theirs.

Jonathan Sacks

LifeDayMemoryDoingBackCalendar

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

Claude Monet

LoveArtUnderstandEveryoneTo Love

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