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Marilyn Hacker quotes

American Poet November 27, 1942

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Lovely and unremarkable, the clutterof mugs and books, the almost-empty FigNewtons box, thick dishes in a bigtin tray, the knife still standing in the butter, change like the color of river waterin the delicate shift to day. Thin fogveils the hedges, where a neighbor dogmakes rounds. 'Go to bed. It doesn't matterabout the washing-up. Take this book along.'Whatever it was we said that night is gone, framed like a photograph nobody took. Stretched out on a camp cot with the book, I think that... Marilyn Hacker
Did you love well what you very soon left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache. Marilyn Hacker
You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship. Marilyn Hacker
My mother was told she couldn't 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
imagine thatit were given back to me to bethe child who knew departure would be sweet, the boy who drew square-rigged ships, the girl who knewtruck routes from ottawa to mexico, the me who found a door in latin verseand made a map out of hexameters. Marilyn Hacker
We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies. Marilyn Hacker
Marilyn Hacker quote: "Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the..."
Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged. Marilyn Hacker
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
Marilyn Hacker quote: "Community means people spending time together here, and I..."
Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that. 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. Marilyn Hacker
Marilyn Hacker quote: "Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about."
Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about. Marilyn Hacker
I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer. 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 the time. I think the two feed each other. Marilyn Hacker
Marilyn Hacker quote: "The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical..."
The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me. Marilyn Hacker
I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem. Marilyn Hacker

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