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Josephine Jacobsen Quotes

Poetry is like walking along a little, tiny, narrow ridge up on a precipice. You never know the next step, whether there's going to be a plunge. I think poetry is dangerous. There's nothing mild and predictable about

Poetry is like walking along a little, tiny, narrow ridge up on a precipice. You never know the next step, whether there's going to be a plunge. I think poetry is dangerous. There's nothing mild and predictable about poetry.

Josephine Jacobsen
Thinking, Next Steps, Littles

I love the process of being taken from where I am to somewhere else.

Josephine Jacobsen
Taken, Somewhere Else, Process
Josephine Jacobsen (1997). “The instant of knowing: lectures, criticism, and occasional prose”, Univ of Michigan Pr

I work better the more I am confined and the less I am distracted. My ultimate place would be a closet.

Josephine Jacobsen
Would Be, Closets, Distracted

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