Marilyn Hacker Quotes

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.

Marilyn Hacker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Technological unemployment is scary for those affected - but has always gone hand in hand with economic progress.

Joe Lonsdale

ProgressHandScaryAlwaysGone

I mean, the country was founded on free enterprise. There's good things about it, and there's obviously bad things about it.

Joan Cusack

GoodGood ThingsFreeBadCountry

I turn over a lot of money for a lot of people and I'm the smallest fish in it.

Michael Hutchence

MoneyPeopleFishOverTurnLot

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

Steve Jobs

BusinessPeopleThinkYouLookDumb

Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are well known, is a fairly risky place to live. To be evil, you have to have intent. Any remarkable natural happening in which no human will is employed cannot be regarded as evil.

Simon Winchester

NatureLivePeopleEvilWorldYou

I feel like I'm constantly trying to avoid awkwardness. I always try to pretend that the awkwardness doesn't exist, and then it just becomes more awkward.

Julia Stiles

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Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home.

Joyce Maynard

NatureHomeChildFeelPlayKnow

Being a teenager is complicated.

Janet Varney

ComplicatedBeing A TeenagerBeing

There are the people who read my horror novels - the first two of them - and they found them scary or whatever, and then there are some people who are maybe not entirely stable who think that they're real, who think that they're being stalked by the same demons or ghosts that are mentioned in the books.

David Wong

PeopleThinkDemonsSome PeopleReal

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.

Christopher Meloni

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The real heart of comedy is uncovering a truth about yourself or about the world that you didn't see.

Ari Graynor

TruthHeartYourselfWorldComedy

I love my life, my family and my friends, and I'm drawn to 'relationship' novels because of their affirming focus on the power of love to heal wounds and transform lives.

Susan Wiggs

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