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Marilyn Hacker Quotes

American - Poet | November 27, 1942 -

I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.

Work City Think You Touch Way

I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so I've had the same address and phone number since then.

Phone Living Same Apartment Lived

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.

Together Words Poetry You Look Line

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.

Challenge Find First English Poem

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

Women Think First Two Accident

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.

Moment Together Architecture Moments

I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.

Think Help Know Something Poem

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.

Me Writing Think Interesting Doing

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

Community City Paris Say Belong

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

Community Time Together People Think

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

Creative Writing University Exist

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.

Creative Writing Literature Study

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