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1 " I have heard queens' swans, moved a man to cry,heard Bach played in the Metro on guitars.I have made love in Paris. Let me die. "
― Jennifer Reeser , Fleur de Lis
2 " The breath of Paris pushes at my shutters.From the Balcony "
3 " ...no craft on earth is master to despair.Imagining You'd Come to Say Goodbye "
― Jennifer Reeser , Winterproof
4 " The night is not so sinister or longeach trial of the soul will not seem slightupon arrival of the morning lightwhen even the hardest labors seem less strong.-- Nightmare "
5 " the purpose of the poet: to begin with nothing and from nowhere, to observe, then form a thing of beauty from great sin. "
― Jennifer Reeser , The Lalaurie Horror
6 " So vision would be blindness to surmiseI am not veteran, lying winter-wiseSonnet 12 "
― Jennifer Reeser , Sonnets from the Dark Lady and Other Poems
7 " Now, though, it seems hope's a difficult vision to conjure;what you imagine of Beauty so lodged in grim triviaeven the sentences spoken inside it are dark.Elizabeth Leaves a Letter for Dr. Frankenstein "
― Jennifer Reeser , An Alabaster Flask
