Of the individual poems, some are more l... | Marilyn Hacker

Architecture

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

Quote of the Day

The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.

- Anita Diament

Other quotes by Marilyn Hacker

Language

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.

- Marilyn Hacker

Energy Writing

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

- Marilyn Hacker

Work

I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.

- Marilyn Hacker

Example Writing

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.

- Marilyn Hacker

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

Investment Writing

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.

- Marilyn Hacker

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Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

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Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

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The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

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Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

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Pain Architecture World

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

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My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

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