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When you translate poetry in particular, youre obliged to look at

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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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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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in the darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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And if they havent got poetry in them, theres nothing you can do that will produce it. – Norman MacCaig

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. – T.S. Eliot, Dante, 1920

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Poetry does not consist of words alone there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement. – Samuel Prout

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