"The ambiguities of language, both in terms of……" — Marilyn Hacker
"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 the linguistic transition."
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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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More Ambiguities Quotes
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Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve…
— Violet Trefusis
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It is the misanthrope who alone has clarity.By standing outside the huddles of man,he sees a lot,and what he often…
— Manu Joseph
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Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?
— Banana Yoshimoto
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...I am much better now at ambiguities.
— Saul Bellow
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The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar…
— J. G. Ballard
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The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.
— Scott Turow
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The Russian proposal over Iran's uranium enrichment program is considerable, but it has some problems and ambiguities to be clarified…
— Ali Larijani
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
— Herman Melville
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In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have…
— Bertrand Russell
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If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching…
— Lance Armstrong
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