Quote by Marilyn Hacker
I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was jus

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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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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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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Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. – François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678

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