I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets. — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel. — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences,… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment.… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that,… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets. — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share
You happened to me. You were as deep down as I’ve ever been. You were inside me like my pulse. — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share
I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading;… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share
Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share
Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community. — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share
I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share
“Lovely and unremarkable, the clutter of mugs and books, the almost-empty Fig Newtons box, thick dishes in a big tin tray, the knife still… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share
I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it.… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share
The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity. — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share
“From Orient Point The art of living isn't hard to muster: Enjoy the hour, not what it might portend. When someone makes you promises,… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share
Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share
“imagine that it were given back to me to be the child who knew departure would be sweet, the boy who drew square-rigged ships,… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share
As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down. — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share
“Nearly a Valediction" You happened to me. I was happened to like an abandoned building by a bull- dozer, like the van that missed… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share
“Sweetheart, it isn’t lust; it’s all the rest of what I want with you that scares me shitless.” — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share
