Author: 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

- Marilyn Hacker

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

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

- Marilyn Hacker

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

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

- Marilyn Hacker

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