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Marilyn Hacker Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn’t exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity Picture Quote #1

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I have experienced healing through other writers’ poetry, but there’s no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I’ll write a bad poem Picture Quote #1

I have experienced healing through other writers’ poetry, but there’s no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I’ll write a bad poem Picture Quote #1

Paris is a wonderful city. I can’t say I belong to an especially anglophone community Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing Picture Quote #1

Who gets to choose what battle takes her down? Picture Quote #1

With, or despite our scars, we stay alive Picture Quote #1

There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something Picture Quote #1

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about Picture Quote #1

Everyone thinks they’re going to write one book of poems or one novel Picture Quote #1

Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Women love a sick child or a healthy animal; A man who is both itches them like an incubus Picture Quote #1

Did you love well what very soon you left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache. Never so full, I never was bereft so utterly. The winter evenings drift dark to the window. Not one work will make you, where you are, turn in your day, or wake from your night toward me. The only gift I got to keep or give is what I’ve cried, floodgates let down to mourning for the dead chances, for the end of being young, for everyone I loved who really died. I drank our one year out in brine instead of honey from the seasons of your tongue Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Quotes) Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it (Marilyn Hacker Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Marilyn Hacker Quotes) 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 (Marilyn Hacker Quotes) 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 Quotes) We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies (Marilyn Hacker Quotes) 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 Quotes) I have experienced healing through other writers’ poetry, but there’s no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I’ll write a bad poem. (Marilyn Hacker Quotes) I have experienced healing through other writers’ poetry, but there’s no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I’ll write a bad poem (Marilyn Hacker Quotes) Paris is a wonderful city. I can’t say I belong to an especially anglophone community. (Marilyn Hacker Quotes) 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. (Marilyn Hacker Quotes) I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing (Marilyn Hacker Quotes) Who gets to choose what battle takes her down? (Marilyn Hacker Quotes) With, or despite our scars, we stay alive (Marilyn Hacker Quotes) There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something (Marilyn Hacker Quotes) Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about (Marilyn Hacker Quotes) Everyone thinks they’re going to write one book of poems or one novel (Marilyn Hacker Quotes) Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged (Marilyn Hacker Quotes) 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 (Marilyn Hacker Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Women love a sick child or a healthy animal; A man who is both itches them like an incubus (Marilyn Hacker Quotes) Did you love well what very soon you left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache. Never so full, I never was bereft so utterly. The winter evenings drift dark to the window. Not one work will make you, where you are, turn in your day, or wake from your night toward me. The only gift I got to keep or give is what I’ve cried, floodgates let down to mourning for the dead chances, for the end of being young, for everyone I loved who really died. I drank our one year out in brine instead of honey from the seasons of your tongue (Marilyn Hacker Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me (Marilyn Hacker Quotes) 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 Quotes)

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