I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts. — 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 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
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 Image
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 Image
Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community. — 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 their living… — Marilyn Hacker 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 knife still… — Marilyn Hacker 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 in it.… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“Sweetheart, it isn’t lust; it’s all the rest of what I want with you that scares me shitless.” — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
