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Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both

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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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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My mother was told she couldnt go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system. – 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 have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry. – Jane Campion

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Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of Nature. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry. – Saul Williams

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I was trained as an actress. But I wasnt a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up. – Jenny Eclair

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