I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets. — Marilyn Hacker Accidents Copy Share Image
Women love a sick child or a healthy animal; A man who is both itches them like an incubus. — Marilyn Hacker Animal Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel. — Marilyn Hacker Book Copy Share Image
“There are lines of yours I know by heart. There are scents of yours soaked in my skin.” — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
“Sweetheart, it isn’t lust; it’s all the rest of what I want with you that scares me shitless.” — Marilyn Hacker Lust Copy Share Image
Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community. — Marilyn Hacker Cities Copy Share Image
The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me. — Marilyn Hacker Interest Copy Share Image
i'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in. — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on… — Marilyn Hacker Everyday 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 Healing Copy Share Image
“There is no danger greater for the State than that of self-styled intellectuals. You would have been better off remaining illiterate. -… — Marilyn Hacker Anti-intellectualism 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 Creative Copy Share Image
I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Did you love well what you very soon left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach… — 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 Books 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 Between the lines 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 Books Copy Share Image
“From Orient Point The art of living isn't hard to muster: Enjoy the hour, not what it might portend. When someone makes… — Marilyn Hacker Art Copy Share Image
“Lovely and unremarkable, the clutter of mugs and books, the almost-empty Fig Newtons box, thick dishes in a big tin tray, the… — Marilyn Hacker Books Copy Share Image
Did you love well what very soon you left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
“Nearly a Valediction" You happened to me. I was happened to like an abandoned building by a bull- dozer, like the van… — Marilyn Hacker Longing Copy Share Image
As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different… — Marilyn Hacker City Copy Share Image
Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that. — Marilyn Hacker Community Copy Share Image
There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something. — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
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 Image
Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged. — Marilyn Hacker Education Copy Share Image
You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I… — Marilyn Hacker Education 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 Architecture 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
I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the… — Marilyn Hacker Courage Copy Share Image
“imagine that it were given back to me to be the child who knew departure would be sweet, the boy who drew… — Marilyn Hacker Children 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
The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what… — Marilyn Hacker Ambiguities Copy Share Image
