Born Quote by Eileen Myles Download Open image “I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.” — Eileen Myles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Born Eras Generations Poet Poetry Wanted Warhol
When I was about 14, in about 1984, I decided to become a great poet. Faber & Faber was going to publish me, and… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I was born not to be a poet myself, but to be the instrument of the very poet that has always been inside me. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
“Now, you might think that because there are more poets than ever, there might be more opportunities for poets than ever. And you’d be… — Jim Behrle Copy Share Image
People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all. — Petra Haden Copy Share Image
What made Andy famous was the years I managed him. I created the Velvet Underground and told him not to worry about them because… — Paul Morrissey Copy Share Image
I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my passion with… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous. I walk… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history,… — Peter Ackroyd 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
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings. — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I know that in the rap game you've got a lot of people, that come from poverty, was born in poverty and if it… — Jon Connor Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Must I go bound while you go free Must I love a manwho doesn't love me Must I be born with so little art… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way. — Manny Pacquiao Copy Share Image
