Marilyn Hacker Quotes

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.

Marilyn Hacker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SpiritualPoetryExerciseNobody

Connecting with the kids is a great joy for me. I love meeting them backstage or at a signing event. I am overwhelmed when I meet kids who struggle with terminal illnesses.

Jodi Benson

LoveGreatStruggleI AmJoyMe

My family's support and the negative environment of the day toward blacks in South Carolina became the forces that led me out of the South - first to New York, then to Philadelphia, where I found opportunity in the form of a PAL gym and my trainer, Yank Durham.

Joe Frazier

FamilyOpportunityDaySupportMe

Concepts like edX and online learning will transform education. This will completely change the world. I believe that people will move to online learning, both on campuses and worldwide. We have a real opportunity to be able to bring people around the world into our fold.

Anant Agarwal

EducationChangeLearningOpportunity

Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.

John Naisbitt

LifeLearningLearnPreciousMost

Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among friends over the timing, not the substance, of the Iraq war.

John S. Tanner

WarPeopleFriendsTimingRhetoric

I am better at math than spelling.

Spike Jonze

I AmBetterMathSpellingThanAm

I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does kind of involve everything. It's got theatre, it's got young, pretty people... And it's got money!

Rufus Wainwright

MoneyPeopleTheatreAttentionYoung

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

Joyce Cary

TruthExperienceEmotionalRather

People used to share things with e-mail on a massive scale. If you remember e-mail forwards from the late '90s, it was a terrible way to share content.

Jonah Peretti

PeopleRememberYouLateWayShare

I kill hype for a living.

Dominick Cruz

LivingHype

The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself.

Donald Pleasence

CharacterTimeMyselfI AmTheatre

I am a freelancer. My services are available to anyone at any time.

Chris Hardwick

TimeI AmAvailableAnyAmAnyone

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