"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
About this Quote
Marilyn Hacker is highlighting the trouble of taking a text and changing it into a poem. She is recommending that the poem must be written in a manner in which is easy to understand and follows the conventions of the English language. This is an uphill struggle as it requires the author to take the text and create something that is both significant and aesthetically pleasing. It is a difficulty to take the text and make it into something that is both poetic and understandable. The writer must be able to take the text and develop something that is both significant and aesthetically pleasing. This is an uphill struggle as it needs the writer to take the text and produce something that is both significant and visually pleasing. It is a difficulty to take the text and make it into something that is both poetic and understandable. The author needs to have the ability to take the text and create something that is both meaningful and visually pleasing. This is a difficult task that needs the writer to be creative and to believe outside package.
This quote is written / told by Marilyn Hacker somewhere between November 27, 1942 and today. She was a famous Poet from USA.
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