Best quotes by Eileen Myles on Love

Checkout quotes by Eileen Myles on Love

• ‟ I've grown to love Barack Obama. Hillary is no Bernie Sanders. But she's a politician, and she understands Congress. And I think with that kind of twisted beauty, she could lead our country.

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

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• ‟ When somebody's in love with you, they think it's amazing you've written them a poem, and when they don't love you anymore, they hate those poems. They wish those poems would go away.

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

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I love Canada, and I dated someone who was Canadian a few years ago, and she brought me into a deeper understanding of the greatness of the culture.

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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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• ‟ Poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling.

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• ‟ Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You're always home.

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