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.

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• 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.

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

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• I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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• 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.

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• Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

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• 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.

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

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

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

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

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Marilyn Hacker (35)

Birth:	27th November, 1942
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Critic, Poet

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