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We have put together a list of some of the best Quotes that Written by Marilyn Hacker
Marilyn Hacker
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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
Born: November 27, 1942
Occupation: Poet
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