All Marilyn Hacker Quotes
- My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the… Became
- Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community. Anglophone
- Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it,… Aerobic
- 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 the… Both
- When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple… Line
- 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 myself,… Closely
- Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to… Challenge
- The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should… Anybody
- The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity. Creative
- The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me. Creates
- The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in… Ambiguities
- The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide. Brilliant
- Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about. Energy
- Who gets to choose what battle takes her down? Battle
- i'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in. Bed
- Did you love well what you very soon left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache. Ache
- You happened to me. You were as deep down as I’ve ever been. You were inside me like my pulse. Been
- I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way. City
- I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I… Address