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Often 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.

Erica Jong

Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
ERICA JONG

Disaaperard Leave Memory Most Possession Star Trace Transient
Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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Anything Currency One Remember Show Use Wants Worth
If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
ERICA JONG

Activities Body Creativity Dictator Knowledge Lead Often Own Seen Sex
I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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Alternate Country Create Hard Hate Myself One People Person Place Prizefighter Try Writer
Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
ERICA JONG

Back Come Daughter Different Freedom Insist Leash License Loose Mother Need Reject Share She
The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Block Emphasis Future Joy Merely Miseries Past Present Shadow
Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Alone Creativity Demand Enough Less Nothing Talent You
As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
ERICA JONG

Act Age Crumb Disable Little Paranoid Power Utterly Women
Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
ERICA JONG

Catch Every Myself Say Time Try Yes
What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
ERICA JONG

Daughter Example Exhortation Freedom Give Like Something
In loving life you love what can’t survive.
ERICA JONG

Life Love Survive
Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
ERICA JONG

Actually Believe Courage Cowardice Cynicism Height Innocense Many People Require Result Today
Why does life need evidence of life?
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Evidence Life Need
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
ERICA JONG

Love Loved Myself
Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
ERICA JONG

Come Dog Live Love Loyalty
Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
ERICA JONG

Act Currency Exist Fix Given Kind Quite Same Thing Way Word Written

Often 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.

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Often 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.

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