69 Quotes by Marilyn Hacker

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.

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