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Marilyn Hacker Quotes

With, or despite our scars, we stay alive.

Marilyn Hacker (2015). “A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994-2014: New and Selected Poems 1994–2014”, p.93, W. W. Norton & Company

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

Marilyn Hacker (2015). “A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994-2014: New and Selected Poems 1994–2014”, p.66, W. W. Norton & Company

Who gets to choose what battle takes her down?

Marilyn Hacker (2015). “A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994-2014: New and Selected Poems 1994–2014”, p.131, W. W. Norton & Company

Poetry dovetails contradictions.

Marilyn Hacker (1980). “Taking notice”, Alfred A. Knopf