"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."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Eileen Myles

#Writing Quotes #Epic Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“A cheerleader? Do I look like a guy who'd be interested in talking to a cheerleader?”
“The other one he loved like a slave, like a madman and like a beggar. Why? Ask the dust on the road and the falling leaves, ask the mysterious God of life; for no one knows such things. She gave him nothing, no nothing did she give him and yet he thanked her. She said: Give me your peace and your reason! And he was only sorry she did not ask for his life.”
“For me there ain't no high heel high enough.”
“You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.”
“It's fear that makes an act courageous.”

Source : Denise Hunter, Beth Webb Hart (2009). “The Convenient Groom and Wedding Machine”, p.162, Thomas Nelson Inc
“When I was 14, I thought I looked terrible. I wore these typical Slavic shoes with metal bottoms so you could always hear me coming and this really ugly princess skirt and blouse with the top button closed. I had a boy haircut, a baby face covered with pimples, and a really big nose.”
“I never underestimate the power of hot rollers for your hair and eyelash curlers for your eyelashes.”
“I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a deep need to belong? Are we simply pack animals desperately trying to pretend we are not?”

Source : Rabih Alameddine (2002). “I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters”, p.232, W. W. Norton & Company

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