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Marilyn Hacker quotes about thinking

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
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
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: "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: "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 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
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

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