You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I dont mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship. – Marilyn Hacker
Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged. – Marilyn Hacker
I have experienced healing through other writers poetry, but theres no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, Ill write a bad poem. – Marilyn Hacker
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
Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Weldings a mystery to me now. You cant go back, your life changes every day. – Billy Connolly