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More Quotes from Marilyn Hacker:
The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.Marilyn Hacker
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.
Marilyn Hacker
Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically.
Marilyn Hacker
Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.
Marilyn Hacker
I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.
Marilyn Hacker
I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.
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