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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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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

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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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I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years. – Marilyn Hacker

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The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical. – William Shenstone

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Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying. – W. H. Auden

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry. – Raoul Vaneigem

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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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