"You happened to me. You were as deep down as Iâ€™ve ever been. You were inside me like my pulse."

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Source : 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

Marilyn Hacker

“Lust and learning. That's really all there is, isn't it?”
“I always say too much when I'm talking to you--- that's one of the problems.... Edward Cullen Twilight, Chapter 5”
“Curled up in bed, Iâ€™m young in the old way.”
“Years teach us more than books.”
“Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification.”

Source : Morton Irving Seiden (1968). “The paradox of hate: a study in ritual murder”
“The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula.”
“So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.”
“it pleaseth me when I see through the meadows The tents and pavilions set up, and great joy have I When I see o'er the campana knights armed and horses arrayed. And it pleaseth me when the scouts set in flight the folk with their goods; And it pleaseth me when I see coming together after them an host of armed men.”

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