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Quote by Erica Jong
Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting Hiawatha and they groan. – Erica Jong

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Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame. – Erica Jong

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