Eileen Myles Quotes


When somebody's in love with you, they think it's amazing you've written them a poem, and when they don't love you anymore, they hate those poems. They wish those poems would go away.


Citations

Myles, Eileen. Inferno (A Poet's Novel). OR Books, 2010.

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Eileen Myles
Eileen Myles
  • Born: December 9, 1949
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer, Poet, Performer

Eileen Myles is a LAMBDA Literary Award-winning American poet and writer who has produced more than twenty volumes of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, libretti, plays, and performance pieces over the last three decades. Novelist Dennis Cooper has described Myles as "one of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature." In 2012, Myles received a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete Afterglow (a memoir), which gives both a real and fantastic account of a dog's life. Myles uses they/them pronouns.