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List of Marilyn Hacker Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 42 inspiring quotes by Marilyn Hacker.

About Marilyn Hacker

  • Born: November 27, 1942
  • Occupation: Poet
    • I'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in.
    Bed Swamps Brilliant
    Community means people spending time together here, and i don't think there's really that.
    Mean Thinking People
    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.
    Thinking Literature Helping
    I don't think it's by accident that i was first attracted to translating two french women poets.
    Thinking Two Literature
    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.
    Teaching Writing Everyday
    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.
    Teaching Writing Mean
    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.
    Book Email Literature
    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.
    Mother Teacher New York
    Paris is a wonderful city. i can't say i belong to an especially anglophone community.
    Cities Paris Community
    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.
    Years Numbers Phones
    The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
    Musical Sound Syntax
    The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in france. the whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.
    Writing Oddities Ideas
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