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 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.
ERICA JONGDo all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
ERICA JONGMemory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
ERICA JONGI look forward and see myself look back.
ERICA JONGThere are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
ERICA JONGDriving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
ERICA JONGFame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
ERICA JONGConflict is the soul of literature.
ERICA JONGCourage is the only Magic worth having.
ERICA JONGMy advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
ERICA JONGThe trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
ERICA JONGThe best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
ERICA JONGLife is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
ERICA JONGDivorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
ERICA JONGIt’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
ERICA JONGMotherhood cannot finally be delegated.
ERICA JONG