“When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how...” — Marilyn Hacker Quote

“When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.”

“our foundation is rocky”

“Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t.”

“Resist much, obey little.”