"The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide."
― Marilyn Hacker
Topic(s):
Beauty
More From Marilyn Hacker
- "You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don’t mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship."
- "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."
- "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."
More In Beauty
- "One new feature or fresh take can change everything."― Neil Young
- "Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness."― Jerry Saltz
- "In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness – otherwise how would you know when you’re happy?"― Leslie Caron