Marilyn Hacker Quotes

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.

Marilyn Hacker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 27, 1942

Topics

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It's great to hear from people who have been touched by these songs. It has been good to know that the Lord is using this in ways I am not even aware of.

Jim Cole

GoodGreatI AmPeopleKnowAware

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.

Jerry Garcia

LifeDeathYouMatterComparison

It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards.

John Lydon

GoodMarriageSorryBetterNothing

If you try to bring 'teen drama,' you end up doing nothing but pouting.

Max Irons

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My first book was so horrible I have deleted all copies of it. Thankfully, it was before the Internet, so there are no lurking caches of it anywhere.

Andy Weir

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My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly.

Jean Moulin

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Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves.

Robert A. Dahl

DemocracyDependChancesOurselves

To me, NASA is kind of the magical kingdom. I was sort of a geek, and you go there, and there are just these wondrously strange things and people.

Mary Roach

PeopleMeYouNASAGoKind

I'm a kid for a living: I get to play the piano for a living.

Bruce Hornsby

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My father was a huge jazz fan, so I remember him playing Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughn, and Count Basie.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

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When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not.

Anselm Kiefer

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Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?

Pope Paul VI

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