Art is always an energy exchange.
ERICA JONGOften I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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