"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."
― Marilyn Hacker
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More From Marilyn Hacker
- "As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down."
- "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."
- "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."
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