Quotes from Eileen Myles

I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor.

I'd like to sit down with Hillary Clinton onstage and ask her about Glass Steagall and all the big banks and her own campaign contributions.

Art feels like it has this frame, and it's either outside or inside.

I was like the family clown. The middle child entertaining. I was a lousy student, but interestingly, the nuns always let me write plays or do drawings, endless special projects.

I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet.

I tend to view my life as an accident, almost as a dream.

Who doesn't want to be famous? I am famous. I'm dying to be on TV.

Evolution is not an even process. There are surges, and there are micromoments. Certainly a career as an artist is that way.

I always aimed at being a legend.

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

When we have relationships with animals, we often make up who they are.