You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.

Quote by Marilyn Hacker

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

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

I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought...

I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way,...

Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way,...

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...

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.

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'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 phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is...

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is...

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....

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.

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman...

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman...

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...

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...

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of...

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of...

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in...

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in...

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...