Marilyn Hacker Poetry Quotes

What did Marilyn Hacker say about Poetry?

Marilyn Hacker has written many quotes about Poetry. E.g.,

• Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
• Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.
• I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.

What are the top most famous Poetry quotes by Marilyn Hacker?

Here are the top most famous quotes about Poetry by Marilyn Hacker.

• Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
• Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.
• I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.
• When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.
• 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.