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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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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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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It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up. – Ginnifer Goodwin

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I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves. – August Strindberg

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Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world. – Grace Paley

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I admired Eugene McCarthys courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher on the editorial page of the Washington Post, I remained an admirer. – Kitty Kelley

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