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Marilyn Hacker quotes: You happened to me. You were as deep down as I've ever been. You were inside me like my pulse.

You happened to me. You were as deep down as I've ever been. You were inside me like my pulse.

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

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

Marilyn Hacker quotes: Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.

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

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

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

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

Marilyn Hacker quotes: Did you love well what you very soon left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache.

Did you love well what you very soon left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache.

Marilyn Hacker quotes: 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.

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

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

Marilyn Hacker quotes: What I like about Sapphics is the music of a non-iambic metric in English.

What I like about Sapphics is the music of a non-iambic metric in English.

Marilyn Hacker quotes: There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something.

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

Marilyn Hacker quotes: Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

Marilyn Hacker quotes: Who gets to choose what battle takes her down?

Who gets to choose what battle takes her down?

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

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

Marilyn Hacker quotes: The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

Marilyn Hacker quotes: The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

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 quotes: I'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in.

I'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in.

Marilyn Hacker quotes: With, or despite our scars, we stay alive.

With, or despite our scars, we stay alive.

Marilyn Hacker quotes: Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.

Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.

Marilyn Hacker quotes: Women love a sick child or a healthy animal; A man who is both itches them like an incubus.

Women love a sick child or a healthy animal; A man who is both itches them like an incubus.

Marilyn Hacker quotes: Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

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

Marilyn Hacker quotes: The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

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

Marilyn Hacker quotes: I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.

I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.