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Marilyn Hacker Quotes

American - Poet | November 27, 1942 -

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

Poetry Book Write Everyone Going

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.

Myself Culture Creative Writing Earn

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

Teacher Attention You Down More Pay

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.

Friendship Free Friends You Group

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

Relationship Possibilities Student

I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources.

Live Book Internet You Find Email

I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts.

Better Say Everyday Try Write First

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

Being Something Middle Very About

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

Women Woman Suicide Say Nothing

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

Spiritual Poetry Exercise Nobody

There is always an element of play in form, however 'serious' the expression.

Play Serious Always Expression Form

'Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons' is a kind of novel in verse about the arc of an urban lesbian love affair - and I suppose there is a certain amount of voyeurism in the consumption of fiction! The 'Sancerre' poems here are more contemplative and about the relationship of the individual to local and wider histories.

Love Relationship Death Seasons Kind

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