--- title: "2 Joanne Limburg Quotes - Famous Poet" description: "British poet... | Joanne Limburg is a British writer and poet based in Cambridge. She has published three books of poetry for adults, one book of poetry..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b025/author-joanne-limburg-98652.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Joanne Limburg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b025/author-joanne-limburg-98652.jpg) # Joanne Limburg (1970) Poet **2** quotes in **11** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Joanne Limburg is a poet. ## Quick Facts About Joanne Limburg Profession Poet ## About Joanne Limburg British poet... \| Joanne Limburg is a British writer and poet based in Cambridge. She has published three books of poetry for adults, one book of poetry for children, a novel and two books of memoirs. ## Quotes by Joanne Limburg > [“As the sole surviving child of that family, I find myself left with certain difficulties in the area of speech and language,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanne-limburg/as-the-sole-surviving-child-of-that-family-i-find-myself-left-with/) [Joanne Limburg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanne-limburg/) [Brotherhood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brotherhood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/572/joanne-limburg-98652_brotherhood_as-the-sole-surviving-child-of-that-fami_2212427.jpg) > [“But in the end I had to acknowledge that, whether I was emotionally challenged or not, there was no avoiding at least…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanne-limburg/but-in-the-end-i-had-to-acknowledge-that-whether-i-was-emotionally/) [Joanne Limburg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanne-limburg/) [Emotionally Challenged](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/emotionally-challenged-3147779/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a9/joanne-limburg-98652_emotionally-challeng_but-in-the-end-i-had-to-acknowledge-that_2420430.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanne-limburg/#itemlist", "name": "Joanne Limburg Quotes", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“As the sole surviving child of that family, I find myself left with certain difficulties in the area of speech and language, problems of tense and person, and of definition. To start with definition, does ‘sole surviving child’ effectively mean ‘only child’? Now that I have no siblings, can I still define myself as a sister? This leads into tense: unquestionably I was a sister, who had a brother, but if someone asks me, ‘Do you [not did you ever] have any brothers and sisters?’, how should I answer? If I say, in the present tense, ‘No, I don’t,’ am I declaring the truth, or concealing it? And then – moving on to the question of person or persons – even if the sibling question has not explicitly been asked, when I tell, in the course of an ordinary conversation, an ordinary story about myself, do I talk about my parents, my childhood, my family, say that I grew up in London, I was brought up Jewish, I always went to my grandparents on a Saturday? Or do I say that we went the local school, loved to ride our bikes up and down the street, climbed trees on the wasteland that we called The Green and that, as we got older, we grew more and more impatient with our father? My dilemma here is not that ‘we’ would be incorrect in the past tense, it is rather that – like the answer to the sibling question – the use of the first person plural has the potential to lead a casual conversation towards a revelation that would render it no longer casual. So, Julian, what would you rather I did? Sprinkle a little bit of trauma wherever I go, or finish off what you started, and obliterate you? 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