Marilyn Hacker

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

— Marilyn Hacker

#enlarged #longer #once #possibilities #relationship

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

#both #connotation #fascinating #gained #how

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

— Marilyn Hacker

#attention #down #everything #less #more

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

— Marilyn Hacker

#here #i #means #people #really

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

— Marilyn Hacker

#book #everyone #going #novel #poems

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#energy #gives #good #good writing #whatever

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. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#finds #help #i #i think #itself

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

— Marilyn Hacker

#attracted #first #french #french women #i

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

#down #experienced #healing #hope #i

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

#eccentric #either #must #nothing #poet