Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe. — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak. — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
Women aren't physically afraid of men; women are genetically afraid of men. It's happened for such a long time. — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
I hate the word mentor, the professionalization of friendships between generations. I just feel like the fact of friendship is the thing we all… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that was so… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I am alone. — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time. — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live. — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
“All the details of my life were in exact order and yet I was tumbling in them-out of order like a tremendous wave had… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe. — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
“If passion was a substance I would say it is dark brown, and then blood red. It's like wet grass, tons of it soaked… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
“On The Death of Robert Lowell by Eileen Myles O, I don’t give a shit. He was an old white haired man Insensate beyond… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
