“I wake up with a sense of wonder. I don't dread the future. I like it.” — Eileen Myles Quote

“I wake up with a sense of wonder. I don't dread the future. I like it.”

“When I'm writing the poem, I feel like I have to close my eyes. I don't mean literally, but you invite a kind of blindness, and that's the birth of the poem.”

“In my family, I'm the middle of three, and I'm like a lot of middle children. I was one of those kids that floated from group to group. I liked being able to be included in all the groups - the bad kids, the smart kids.”

“A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.”

“My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh?”

“It's everyone's dread to lose a child. You lose someone you love so much, so young. It does hit you like nothing else, and there is a bit of you that thinks, well, if you can face that sort of challenge in your life, then it puts everything else into perspective.”