Marilyn Hacker
Quotations
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“As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.” -Marilyn Hacker
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“Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.” -Marilyn Hacker
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“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
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“My mother was told she couldn’t go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.” -Marilyn Hacker
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“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.” -Marilyn Hacker
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“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
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“Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.” -Marilyn Hacker
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