Best quotes by Eileen Myles on Poetry

Checkout quotes by Eileen Myles on Poetry

• ‟ In Arlington, people would laugh at you if you tried to get people to look at your drawings or listen to your poetry. It was like you thought you were special.

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• ‟ As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary.

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• ‟ Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems. The good ones came forward a long time ago, and the bad ones fell away.

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• ‟ Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy.

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• ‟ I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry. I can move around.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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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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