Quote by Marilyn Hacker
As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount o

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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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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Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that Ive found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other. – 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 was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the 50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change! – Thom Gunn

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The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher. – Frank McCourt

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From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when youre in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly. – Mark Hoppus

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I dont find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. Im not saving anybodys life, Im not a teacher, Im not working for UNICEF. I dont think Im some big deal. – Ellen Pompeo

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