"I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it"
- Marilyn Hacker
About this Quote
Marilyn Hacker's quote recommends that poems are not necessarily composed to assist establish something, but rather for the reader to discover something in them. She indicates that the poem is its own entity, which it is up to the reader to translate it and discover something meaningful in it. This might be a message, a sensation, or a lesson. It depends on the reader to decide what they remove from the poem. Hacker's quote recommends that the poem is not composed with a specific function in mind, but rather to be taken pleasure in and translated by the reader. It is a pointer that poems are not just words on a page, however rather a kind of expression that can be valued and understood in various ways.
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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