69 Quotes by Marilyn Hacker

I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.

When I edited Thirteenth Moon, a feminist literary magazine, I basically supported it myself with an essential grant here and there.

Various on-line discussion groups are ways to find out about books and writers that one might have remained ignorant of otherwise.

I've been in Paris as much as I could be, which includes living here for longer stretches of time, then eventually just living here tout court.

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.

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.

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

Who gets to choose what battle takes her down?