"Who gets to choose what battle takes her down?"

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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.131, W. W. Norton & Company

Marilyn Hacker

“I donâ€™t know how to explain it.â€ â€œTry words. If that doesnâ€™t work, weâ€™ll move on to interpretive dance.”
“I have a personal motto that I live by, which is feel the fear and do it anyway. If you fail, you get up and you keep trying again.”
“Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'.”

Source : Song: Nothing From Nothing
“I'm just the same age I've always been.”
“I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.”
“One look at love and you may see it weaves a web over mystery, all ravelled threads can rend apart for hope has a place in the lover's heart. Hope has a place in a lover's heart.”

Source : Song: Hope Has A Place, Album: The Memory Of Trees, 1995
“It's interesting with my blog, because it feels to me less like a blog and more like a forum, because my readers are so funny and leave hysterical comments. And I'm not being humble when I say that very often, the comments are so much better than the post originally was.”
“Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.”

Source : "Flowers For Algernon". Book by Daniel Keyes, 2012.

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