"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
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"Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.“
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel."
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