“When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.Quote by Marilyn HackerTopics: Quotes about Marilyn HackerShare on:FacebookPinterestWhatsApp
Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the...#Marilyn Hacker
I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French...#Marilyn Hacker
Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a...#Marilyn Hacker
The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important...#Marilyn Hacker
Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in...#Marilyn Hacker
Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative....#Marilyn Hacker
