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Marilyn Hacker

"I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it."

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Donna Grant

"The denial of assistance is sometimes the greatest assistance. The trick is recognizing when this is the case."

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Donna Grant

"I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform."

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Donna Grant

"If you have no job, help is needed."

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Donna Grant

"With the best of intentions you toss me a lifeline. Failing to see how a piece of rope will do me any good, I ignore it and drown."

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Donna Grant

"When you desire to help, you will find a way to do it."

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Donna Grant

"Not everyone who has helped or is helping you wanted or wants to help you."

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Donna Grant

"Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help."

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Donna Grant

"When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter it."

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Donna Grant

"Be the help you seek from others."

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Donna Grant

"When question ariseHelp or not to helpAlways help."

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Marilyn Hacker
"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."

Poetry

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Marilyn Hacker
"Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically."

Writing

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Marilyn Hacker
"Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community."

Community

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Marilyn Hacker
"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."

Poetry

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Marilyn Hacker
"The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me."

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Marilyn Hacker
"There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something."

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Marilyn Hacker
"I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it."

Help

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Marilyn Hacker
"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."

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Marilyn Hacker
"I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer."

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Marilyn Hacker
"Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English."

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