Everybody loved me running for president in '91 and '92 because they never knew a presidential candidate before.
From Eileen Myles
I thought 'Chelsea Girls' was going to change my life.
With Instagram, you're captioning a moment. Twitter is the caption without the image. Even if it's there, the words come first.
I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry. I can move around.
I always aimed at being a legend.
I've had a lifelong waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop feeling when something good happens.
I wake up with a sense of wonder. I don't dread the future. I like it.
Sunday is a likely day to write a poem. Because poetry is a piece of language flying around: you'll find notebooks, something on your phone. It's about finding them and getting them off that crumpled piece of paper and onto my computer.
The first time I voted, I voted for Eugene McCarthy and I knew he wouldn't win, but it felt so great to vote for him, to vote for the right guy - the one who wanted peace.
Lyndon Johnson, I know for a fact, was a great president. And I don't mean by that he was a great man.
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