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“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 · Teacher

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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

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

Poetry

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

Relationship

Marilyn Hacker

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.

Poetry