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Everyone thinks theyre going to write one book of poems or one nov

Everyone thinks theyre going to write one book of poems or one novel. – Marilyn Hacker

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My mother was told she couldnt 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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Medical
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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 dont mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship. – Marilyn Hacker

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Friendship
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I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of – I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry. – Shelby Foote

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Poetry

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert

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Poetry

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet. – Diane Wakoski

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Poetry

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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Poetry

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