Marilyn Hacker quotes - page 2

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)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Marilyn Hacker

Occupation: American Poet
Born: November 27, 1942
Quotes count: 35