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Quote by Erica Jong

“We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.”

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Erica Jong is a renowned American author, born on March 26, 1942. Her works, focusing on female perspectives and sexual liberation, have gained widespread popularity. Her representative works include 'How to Be a Woman'. more

“we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.”

Needs Moments Facts Culture Speak Language Hurt Loss Trouble Gains Species Poetry Is Celebration Endangered Species

Author:Erica Jong

“I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.”

Dark Direct Poetry Is Ecstasy

Book:What Do Women Want?: Bread, Roses, Sex, Power

Source: What Do Women Want?: Bread, Roses, Sex, Power

“Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.”

World Way Culture Poet Ill Nervous Poetry Is Choke Inner Life Nervous System

Book:Fear of Fifty

Source: Fear of Fifty

“Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.”

Ifs Might Actors Simple Television Prose Mediocre

Author:Erica Jong

“Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid.”

Men He Man Psychiatry Psychiatrist

Book:Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected

Source: Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected

“Is there no Villain in this World who doth not regard himself as a poor abus'd Innocent, no She-Wolf who doth not think herself a Lamb, no Shark who doth not fancy that she is a Goldfish?”

Thinking World Poor This World Regard Innocent Fancy Villain Lambs Sharks Goldfish

Book:Fanny

Source: Fanny

“each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.”

Feels Persons Wholeness Coats Torn

Book:how to save your own life

Source: how to save your own life

“Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.”

Writing Turns Sex

Author:Erica Jong

“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.”

Life I Can Night Simple Morning Life Philosophy Bed Enlightenment Get Up Live Life Occupation Formulas Short Life Life Is Good How Short Life Is

Author:Cary Grant

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