Challenge, First 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. - Marilyn Hacker
I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources. - Marilyn Hacker
Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community. - 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. - 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. - Marilyn Hacker
The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior. - 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. - Marilyn Hacker
I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life. - Karen Allen
I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music. - Doc Watson
Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love. - Honore De Balzac
The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter. - Isadora Duncan
I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team. - Shia LaBeouf
When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound. - Taylor Dayne