3 Quotes & Sayings By Jessie B Rittenhouse

Jessie B. Rittenhouse is a bestselling author, best-selling novelist, and award-winning poet. She is the author of the novel The Word Is Murder and the poems The Little Foxes and The River. Jessie B Read more

Rittenhouse’s work has been nominated for numerous awards including the Pushcart Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, and the PEN USA Literary Award. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Poetry, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, and other publications. She co-edited literary journals with poets Michael Martone and John Wieners, received a poetry fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation in 2007, and teaches creative writing at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

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I bargained with Life for a penny, And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty store; For Life is just an employer, He gives you what you ask, But once you have set the wages, Why, you must bear the task. I worked for a menial's hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have paid. Jessie B. Rittenhouse
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I worked for a menial’s hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly paid. Jessie B. Rittenhouse