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. - Marilyn Hacker 1 Share Now -
My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system. - Marilyn Hacker 2 Share Now -
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel. - Marilyn Hacker 3 Share Now -
As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down. - Marilyn Hacker 4 Share Now -
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. - Marilyn Hacker 5 Share Now -
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 6 Share Now -
My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system. - Marilyn Hacker 7 Share Now -
