Books Quote by Marilyn Hacker

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

— Marilyn Hacker

You happened to me. You were as deep down as I’ve ever been. You were inside me like my pulse.

— 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…

— Marilyn Hacker

Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.…

— 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.

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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.

— Marilyn Hacker