"Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Eileen Myles

#Opportunity Quotes #Giving Quotes #Way Quotes

“The fact that the American government has formally set aside an enormous yearly budget of nearly $75 million to increase cultural exchanges in order to bring about what it calls "regime change" has muddied the waters and complicated American Studies in Iran more than anything else.”
“Thank God I'm over the hill. The only heat I have left comes from hot flashes, my promiscuity is confined to the words "one size fits all," and I buy my white cotton unmentionables at Boadicea's Retreat, not Victoria's Secret. None of the things men do to women could possibly happen to me now unless the U.S. is invaded by one of those new Russian republics whose soldiers aren't fussy.”
“Could it be in longing we are most ourselves?”
“If I had a brother who had been murdered, what would you think of me if I...daily consorted with the assassin who drove the dagger into my brother's heart; surely I too must be an accomplice in the crime. Sin murdered Christ; will you be a friend to it? Sin pierced the heart of the Incarnate God; can you love it?”
“Never play the Devil's Advocate. Your words could be the difference between success and failure in someone else.”
“I admire those who trust and are trustworthy.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.”
“Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people”

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