"The pleasure that I take in writing gets……" — Marilyn Hacker
"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 be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior."
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39 Quotes by Marilyn Hacker
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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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