Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel. — Quoted

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“Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.”

Marilyn Hacker · Poetry

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Marilyn Hacker

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.

Courage

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.

Teacher

Marilyn Hacker

Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.

Relationship

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.

Architecture