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. …

- 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…

- Marilyn Hacker

Did you love well what very soon you left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache. Never so full, I …

- Marilyn Hacker

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 equal…

- Marilyn Hacker

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

- Marilyn Hacker

You happened to me. You were as deep down as I’ve ever been. You were inside me like my pulse.

- Marilyn Hacker

With, or despite our scars, we stay alive.

- 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…

- Marilyn Hacker

Who gets to choose what battle takes her down?

- Marilyn Hacker