"What a rare joy it is to linger in the lucid, transcendent worlds of Jennifer Maier's poems. In taut, precise language and lapidary images, Now, Now explores myriad pathways of connection, the ways desire, longing, and imaginative possibility brush up against the everyday, revealing a keen, fiercely compassionate intelligence-a sensibility so finely attuned and so clearly in love with the world that you would follow it almost anywhere."

-- Rick Hilles

#Joy Quotes #Everyday Quotes #Desire Quotes

“Always stay true to yourself. Some people will like it, some people won't. Life goes on.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 14, 2011
“When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.”
“Reality trumps rationality.”
“If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and selfish.”
“Oslo is a city with a hidden beauty that I wanted to explore and find out if it was possible to capture the specific feeling of bicycling home from a party early in the morning just as the sun is coming up.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“The colored woman of to-day occupies, one may say, a unique position in this country. In a period of itself transitional and unsettled, her status seems one of the least ascertainable and definitive of all the forces which make for our civilization. She is confronted by both a woman question and a race problem ...”

Source : Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.112, Rowman & Littlefield
“It's more interesting isn't it, if I've got a hedonistic dark side?”
“The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort.”

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