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Marilyn Hacker quotes

American Poet November 27, 1942

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Marilyn Hacker quote: "I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to..."
I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets. Marilyn Hacker
Marilyn Hacker quote: "I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing."
I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing. Marilyn Hacker
Marilyn Hacker quote: "As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same..."
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
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
When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence. Marilyn Hacker
Marilyn Hacker quote: "Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or..."
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel. Marilyn Hacker
Marilyn Hacker quote: "I think there is something about coming to a city to work that..."
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
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
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
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. I've ended up doing that myself. Marilyn Hacker
Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically. Marilyn Hacker
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
I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources. Marilyn Hacker
The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity. 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. Marilyn Hacker

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