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Marguerite Young, an American poet, was born on August 26, 1908, and passed away on November 17, 1995. Her poetry is known for its unique style and profound emotional expression, which has had a significant impact on 20th-century American poetry.

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Famous Marguerite Young Quotes

“A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.”

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Author:Marguerite Young

“All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.”

Source: Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs

“The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.”

Writing Years Firsts Loss Theme

Author:Marguerite Young

“I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.”

Thinking Writing Time Teaching Rage

Author:Marguerite Young

“If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.”

Ifs Writing Character Obsession Obsessed

Author:Marguerite Young

“I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.”

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“I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.”

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Author:Marguerite Young

“There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.”

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Author:Marguerite Young

About the Author

Born: August 26, 1908
Died: November 17, 1995
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 38

Books & Sources

Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor DebsRelated source material

Miss MacIntosh, My DarlingRelated source material

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