Marilyn Hacker Quotes

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.

Marilyn Hacker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TogetherWordsPoetryYouLookLine

My art became very public.

Joey Skaggs

ArtVeryPublicBecame

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

John Donne

BeginningHumiliationSanctification

I rode a horse once when I was young, and I fell off. I never wanted to ride a horse again.

Andrew Haigh

RideHorseYoungNeverOffAgain

The fact of the matter is I have done so many parts.

Andy Serkis

DoneMatterFactManyParts

I do want to make music that people love, but I also want to make music that I love. I know I can't please everyone with anything I do, so I don't think too much about how other people are going to take things.

Rivers Cuomo

LoveMusicPeopleThinkToo Much

I don't have favourites, I think, when you play, you have to be like a prostitute, you have to love the piece you are playing. Even if you don't like it, you have to play it as if you would like it. Then you are a good interpreter.

Ruggiero Ricci

LoveGoodThinkYouPlayPlaying

In drama school, they do these big shows and period dramas, and I felt that none of those shows were representing me as a person, and I knew I wouldn't be cast in any of those when I left school. I decided to write my own one-woman show, and that was called 'Chewing Gum Dreams.'

Michaela Coel

DreamsSchoolMePersonDramaWrite

Maggie went out of doors to wash the windows and father came out into the kitchen and said he did not know whether he would go down to the post office or not. And then I sprinkled some handkerchiefs to iron.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

FatherKitchenDoorsDownKnowSaid

'Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.'

Lois Lowry

BlueWorldSocietyBookEndBecome

I think that a man should be caring.

Little Richard

ManCaringThinkI ThinkShould

On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the midst of the turbulent Gulf Stream itself. She was jumping like a porpoise over the uneasy waves.

Joshua Slocum

SeaDayWindWavesEnoughSaid

What is it about Iowa? I'm the shortest guy in the state.

Jason Alexander

GuyIowaStateAboutShortest

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