Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Josephine Jacobsen

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Last updated on April 20, 2025.

Josephine Jacobsen was a Canadian-born American poet, short story writer, essayist, and critic. She was appointed the twenty-first Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1971. In 1997, she received the Poetry Society of America’s highest award, the Robert Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry.

American - Poet | August 19, 1908 - July 9, 2003

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

Josephine Jacobsen

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

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

Josephine Jacobsen

Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Josephine Jacobsen

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