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

Quote by Marilyn Hacker

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I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are...

I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are...

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

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

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with...

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with...

I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I...

I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I...

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.

I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm...

I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm...

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader...

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader...

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative....

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative....

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able...

I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able...

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important...

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important...

I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you...

I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you...

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a...

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a...

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for...

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for...

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit...

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit...

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically...

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically...

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider...

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider...

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to...

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to...

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful...

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful...

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as...

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as...