Marilyn Hacker Quotes

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• There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something.
• Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
• I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.
• Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.
• Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory…
• I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They…
• Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments…
• I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have…
• There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the…
• Did you love well what very soon you left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache.…
• You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything…
• 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; you…
• As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.
• We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It…
• Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.
• I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds…
• I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.
• 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…
• I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching…
• I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't…

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