“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 in mud. It's warm and it stinks like shit and it's unaccountably and endlessly good. It's thick and it goes on for miles and it isn't so much deep as bottomless and it holds you in its grip, you never drown. And then it goes. That's all you know.” FeelingsPoetryPassionFearPoetEmotionsSubstanceDeepThickMudInfernoEileen Myles Book:Inferno Source: Inferno
“I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.” WantedBornGenerationsPoetErasWarhol Author:Eileen Myles
“Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.” LongPoetGlamourManaging Time Author:Eileen Myles
“I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that was so raw and funny, and I think we're in the next important moment of television, where it's really telling the epic of the culture like Charles Dickens was doing in the 19th century with his serialized novels.” ThinkingWritingImportantMomentsFilmCultureNextNovelCenturyTelevisionPoetTvsGrewGrew UpSupposed To BeEpic19th CenturyDickensImportant Moments Author:Eileen Myles
“The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're doing.” WisePoetFoolStandingVersions Author:Eileen Myles
“The poet’s life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. We’re hunched and weaving over the keys of our green our grey or pink blue manual typewriter maybe a darker stone cold thoritative selectric with its orgasmic expectant hum and us popping pills and laughing over what you or I just wrote, wondering if that line means insult or sex. Or both. Usually both.” IfsMeanPastLife IsNightSexLinesWonderLaughingPoetKeysColdWasteStonesWindowBlueGreenInsultGreyPillsTypewritersManualsCinematicWeavingPoppingWhippingStone Cold Author:Eileen Myles
