#ere

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#creates #interests #kind #language #me

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

#different #different way #equally #how #i

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. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#fairies #gifts #good #good and bad #i

This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S. ↗

— Mario Monti

#between #blocked #case #certainly #companies

But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#areas #creates #deserve #recognition #sense

It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#cover #film #finished #getting #glamorous

If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser. ↗

— Ian Hacking

#better #bomb #could #intent #just

My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#down #good #grandfather #had #i

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#coward #difference #hero #sideways #step

Terrorism, too, must be excised wherever it exists, which will take years, and which can't happen without the total commitment and the everyday involvement of the American people. ↗

— David Hackworth

#american people #commitment #everyday #exists #happen