"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."
― Marilyn Hacker
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Science
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."
- "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."
- "Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative."
More In Science
- "I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time."― Octavia Butler
- "The product of mental labor – science – always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production."― Karl Marx
- "Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice."― Moshe Dayan