I don’t think it’s by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets. Marilyn Hacker Read Quote
The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It’s not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it’s an interesting tension between interior and exterior. Marilyn Hacker Read Quote
The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me. Marilyn Hacker Read Quote
Paris is a wonderful city. I can’t say I belong to an especially anglophone community. Marilyn Hacker Read Quote
There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students’ use of the vocabulary they’re acquiring. Marilyn Hacker Read Quote
I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I’ve ended up doing that myself. Marilyn Hacker Read Quote
I’m addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things – being able to buy a book on the internet that you can’t find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources. Marilyn Hacker Read Quote
There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something. Marilyn Hacker Read Quote
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 Read Quote