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 JONGShakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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