Top 37 Quotes by Marilyn Hacker

There is always an element of play in form, however 'serious' the expression.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something.

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

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.

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.