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Marilyn Hacker quotes

American Poet November 27, 1942

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Marilyn Hacker quote: "Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an..."
Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community. Marilyn Hacker
I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it. Marilyn Hacker
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 they're acquiring. Marilyn Hacker
I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm 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
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
Marilyn Hacker quote: "i'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is..."
i'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in. Marilyn Hacker
Marilyn Hacker quote: "Who gets to choose what battletakes her down?"
Who gets to choose what battletakes her down? Marilyn Hacker
Marilyn Hacker quote: "There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle..."
There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something. Marilyn Hacker
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 I've had the same address and phone number since then. Marilyn Hacker

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