Quote by Marilyn Hacker
I have experienced healing through other writers poetry, but there

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

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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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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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Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. – Dennis Gabor

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He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger. – Salvatore Quasimodo

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A poem is never finished, only abandoned. – Paul Valéry

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