Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Jill Alexander Essbaum

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American poet Jill Alexander Essbaum.

Last updated on September 19, 2024.

Jill Alexander Essbaum is an American poet, writer, and professor. Her most recent collections are the full-length manuscripts Harlot and Necropolis. Essbaum's poetry features puns, wordplay and dark humor, often mixed with religious and erotic imagery. She currently teaches at the University of California Riverside Palm Desert Graduate Center in the Masters of Creative Writing Graduate Program. Essbaum's debut novel Hausfrau was published in March, 2015.

American - Poet | Born: 1971

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Sometimes, some of us in some things we do know better. When we know better, I think it's imperative that we do better. Otherwise we're perpetuating myths that have for centuries done us no good. Men and women alike. No one is exempt from being called into consciousness.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

I do believe that dreams are interpretable. Analysis and praxis have taught me so.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

I think it's important to let each thing you write teach you how to write it. You must listen to what you do. Let it be in control. I don't step in until I know what it demands of me.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

We [people] are made separate by the things we do or do not do. Responsibilities of all types curb us. Desire betrays us. No wound is ever truly petty. And there are so many ways to be locked apart from the rest of the world.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

I'm suspicious of dreams in books too. Because they're boring and too self-serving.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Jill Alexander Essbaum

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