Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of de... -Eileen Myles

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

Eileen Myles , Poet
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American poet known for their distinctive and experimental style of poetry. Myles' works often explore themes of gender identity, sexuality, and political issues, making them an influential figure in contemporary poetry.

Eileen Myles Quotes to Explore

Who doesn't want to be famous? I am famous. I'm dying to be on TV....
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....
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...
As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary....
Poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling....
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, a...
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 abou...
Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy....
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 worl...
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. The...

Poetry Quotes to Explore

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up t...
I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now....
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry....
However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propell...
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so....
And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it....
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous be...
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry....
Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be relate...
In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same t...