Josephine Jacobsen Professions : Poet Born : August 19, 1908 Died : July 9, 2003 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by 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 next-steps littles thinking I work better the more I am confined and the less I am distracted. My ultimate place would be a closet. Josephine Jacobsen distracted closets would-be I love the process of being taken from where I am to somewhere else. Josephine Jacobsen taken process somewhere-else Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors