"Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a……" — Marilyn Hacker
"Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it."
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39 Quotes by Marilyn Hacker
Marilyn Hacker has 39 quotes on this site.
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There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something.
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Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
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I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.
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Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.
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Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well…
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I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I…
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Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in…
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I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the…
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There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate…
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Did you love well what very soon you left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away…
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You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of…
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I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in…
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It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. If you run one part…
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You've got to find ways to breathe while you're dancing so that when it comes time for you to stop…
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I discovered years ago that the best results in this respect could be gained by running 100 miles weekly at…
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I ride a bike and use aerobic equipment twice a week, and work out with a trainer, lifting weights.
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Circuit training consists of doing resistant movements combined with an aerobic activity (jogging in place, jump rope, jumping jacks, etc.).
— Lee Haney
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I think aerobics are great, of course, but it just bores me out of my mind
— Peter Steele
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Since then, I have not missed five consecutive days in getting some type of aerobic exercise, mostly jogging.
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Her life was like running on a treadmill or riding on a stationary bike; it was aerobic, it was healthy,…
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If talking were aerobic, I'd be the thinnest person in the world.
— Carrie Fisher
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I don't criticize weight training - as long as it is not a substitute for aerobic training.
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Aerobic dancing is already adjusting to injury problems and will probably phase out to some extent.
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