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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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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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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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Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. – Wislawa Szymborska

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I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools dont do things like that anymore – tracking words down to their roots. – Camille Paglia

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Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools. – John Barton

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One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime. – Robert Morgan

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