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.”
-- Josephine Jacobsen

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“I work better the more I am confined and the less I am distracted. My ultimate place would be a closet.”
-- Josephine Jacobsen

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“I love the process of being taken from where I am to somewhere else.”
-- Josephine Jacobsen

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

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“I made no secret of the fact I'd love to stay in football and to do that, you need badges. I'm starting them and that's the next step for me - to continue this next season.”

“The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easy-going sound and strangle the life out of it.”

“Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication.”

“Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It's a lot of things. It's something you can't be afraid of, because you'll stop growing. The next step beyond failure could be your biggest success in life.”

“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”

“You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.”

“I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.”

“Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.”

“A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.”

“I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.”