Accidents Quote by Marilyn Hacker

I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations.

— Simone Muench

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a…

— Ron Padgett

You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.

— Marjane Satrapi

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will…

— Charles Baudelaire

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

— Robert Morgan

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind…

— Paul Auster

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

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

— Robert Fitzgerald

The women of the French Resistance astounded me. Isabelle and Vianne [from The Nightingale] are my homage to those brave and forgotten women.

— Megan Chance

When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.

— Thomas Mars

“I always thought there was something French about her, ever since the word 'insouciance' flitted across the surface of my mind the first time…

— Jessica Pine