Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
More Quotes from Marilyn Hacker:
The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.Marilyn Hacker
There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something.
Marilyn Hacker
I've been in Paris as much as I could be, which includes living here for longer stretches of time, then eventually just living here tout court.
Marilyn Hacker
The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.
Marilyn Hacker
The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.
Marilyn Hacker
When I edited Thirteenth Moon, a feminist literary magazine, I basically supported it myself with an essential grant here and there.
Marilyn Hacker
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Literature Quotes, Poetry QuotesIf anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.
Bob Balaban
This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.
A. P. Herbert
You might say I was a little bit more outspoken... I spoke my mind.
Bobby Hull