Quote by Marilyn Hacker
Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and inst

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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When you translate poetry in particular, youre obliged to look at how the writer with whom youre working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence. – Marilyn Hacker

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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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I used to joke that if acting didnt work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback. – Merritt Wever

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I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge. – Jeffery Deaver

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Dont call my lyrics poetry. Its an insult to real poets. – Bernie Taupin

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Poetry is the deification of reality. – Edith Sitwell

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