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Marilyn Hacker Quotes
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 Quotes
Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged. - Marilyn Hacker Quotes
Community means people spending time together here, and I dont think theres really that. - Marilyn Hacker Quotes
Everyone thinks theyre going to write one book of poems or one novel. - Marilyn Hacker Quotes
Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated. - Marilyn Hacker Quotes
Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about. - Marilyn Hacker Quotes
I dont know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think its there for itself, for what the reader finds in it. - Marilyn Hacker Quotes
I dont think its by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets. - Marilyn Hacker Quotes
I have experienced healing through other writers poetry, but theres no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, Ill write a bad poem. - Marilyn Hacker Quotes
I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so Ive had the same address and phone number since then. - Marilyn Hacker Quotes
I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years. - Marilyn Hacker Quotes
I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way. - Marilyn Hacker Quotes
I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when Im teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts. - Marilyn Hacker Quotes
I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. Ive ended up doing that myself. - Marilyn Hacker Quotes
I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing. - Marilyn Hacker Quotes
Im addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you cant find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources. - Marilyn Hacker Quotes
Ive been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. Youre sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize youve read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer. - Marilyn Hacker Quotes
Ive been in Paris as much as I could be, which includes living here for longer stretches of time, then eventually just living here tout court. - Marilyn Hacker Quotes
My mother was told she couldnt go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system. - Marilyn Hacker Quotes
Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative. - Marilyn Hacker Quotes
Paris is a wonderful city. I cant say I belong to an especially anglophone community. - Marilyn Hacker Quotes
Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English. - Marilyn Hacker Quotes
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. - Marilyn Hacker Quotes
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. - Marilyn Hacker Quotes
The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesnt exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity. - Marilyn Hacker Quotes
The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. Its not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, its an interesting tension between interior and exterior. - Marilyn Hacker Quotes
The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me. - Marilyn Hacker Quotes
The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide. - Marilyn Hacker Quotes
There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students use of the vocabulary theyre acquiring. - Marilyn Hacker Quotes
There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something. - Marilyn Hacker Quotes
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