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.
Quotes By Marilyn Hacker
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As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention...
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Clearly once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of...
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When you translate poetry in particular you're obliged to look at how the...
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I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry but there's no way...
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Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry...
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Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
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My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman...
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You are almost not free if you are teaching a group of graduate students to...
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I started to send my work to journals when I was 26 which was just a...
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Of the individual poems some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or...
Quotes About Poetry
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He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to...
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Poetry asks people to have values form opinions care about some other part...
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For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly...
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I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good...
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All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently link by link with sweat and...
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I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.
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Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science.