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 JONGLove is love, but marriage is an investment.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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