Quotes by Marilyn Hacker

Marilyn Hacker

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

Attention

Pay

Teacher

Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.

Literature

Possibility

Students

Community means people spending time together here, and I don’t think there’s really that.

Mean

People

Thinking

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.

Broken Heart

Home

Winter

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.

Arms

Heartache

Home

Everyone thinks they’re going to write one book of poems or one novel.

Book

Thinking

Writing

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.

Creative

United States

Writing

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

Energy

Giving

Writing

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.

Helping

Literature

Thinking

I don’t think it’s by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

Literature

Thinking

Two

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Animal

Arms

Attention

Battle

Bed

Book

Brilliant

Broken Heart

Challenges

Children

Cities

Community

Contradiction

Creative

Deep Down

Different

Discovery

Eccentric

Editing

Energy

Everyday

Exercise

Fairy

Firsts

Friendship

Giving

Happened

Healing

Heartache

Helping

Home

Ideas

Important

Interesting

Jobs

Kind

Literary Genre

Literature

Looks

Mean

Men

Middle

Mother

Movement

Musical

New York

Numbers

Oddities

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Quotes by Marilyn Hacker

Marilyn Hacker

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.

Community means people spending time together here, and I don’t think there’s really that.

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.

Everyone thinks they’re going to write one book of poems or one novel.

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

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.

I don’t think it’s by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

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