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> [“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, don't trust her unless they're in the here and now, and just her willing largesse free-handed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilyn-hacker/from-orient-point-the-art-of-living-isn-t-hard-to-muster-enjoy-the/)

[Marilyn Hacker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilyn-hacker/)

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## More by Marilyn Hacker

> [I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilyn-hacker/i-don-t-think-it-s-by-accident-that-i-was-first-attracted-to/)

[Marilyn Hacker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilyn-hacker/)

> [You happened to me. You were as deep down as I’ve ever been. You were inside me like my pulse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilyn-hacker/you-happened-to-me-you-were-as-deep-down-as-i-ve-ever-been-you-were/)

[Marilyn Hacker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilyn-hacker/)

> [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;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilyn-hacker/i-ve-been-an-inveterate-reader-of-literary-magazines-since-i-was-a/)

[Marilyn Hacker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilyn-hacker/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilyn-hacker/translation-is-an-interestingly-different-way-to-be-involved-both/)

[Marilyn Hacker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilyn-hacker/)

> [Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilyn-hacker/paris-is-a-wonderful-city-i-can-t-say-i-belong-to-an-especially/)

[Marilyn Hacker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilyn-hacker/)

> [I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilyn-hacker/i-wonder-what-it-means-about-american-literary-culture-and-its/)

[Marilyn Hacker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilyn-hacker/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilyn-hacker/lovely-and-unremarkable-the-clutter-of-mugs-and-books-the-almost/)

[Marilyn Hacker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilyn-hacker/)

> [I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilyn-hacker/i-lived-in-the-studio-apartment-that-i-bought-for-four-years-before-i/)

[Marilyn Hacker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilyn-hacker/)

> [The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilyn-hacker/the-phenomenon-of-university-creative-writing-programs-doesn-t-exist/)

[Marilyn Hacker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilyn-hacker/)

> [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilyn-hacker/from-orient-point-the-art-of-living-isn-t-hard-to-muster-enjoy-the/)

[Marilyn Hacker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilyn-hacker/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilyn-hacker/translation-makes-me-look-at-how-a-poem-is-put-together-in-a/)

[Marilyn Hacker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilyn-hacker/)

> [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilyn-hacker/imagine-that-it-were-given-back-to-me-to-be-the-child-who-knew/)

[Marilyn Hacker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilyn-hacker/)

> [As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilyn-hacker/as-a-teacher-you-are-more-or-less-obliged-to-pay-the-same-amount-of/)

[Marilyn Hacker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilyn-hacker/)

> [“Nearly a Valediction" You happened to me. I was happened to like an abandoned building by a bull- dozer, like the van that missed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilyn-hacker/nearly-a-valediction-you-happened-to-me-i-was-happened-to-like-an/)

[Marilyn Hacker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilyn-hacker/)

> [“Sweetheart, it isn’t lust; it’s all the rest of what I want with you that scares me shitless.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilyn-hacker/sweetheart-it-isn-t-lust-it-s-all-the-rest-of-what-i-want-with-you/)

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