Quote by Erica Jong
Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our lif

Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life – when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love. – Erica Jong

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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood. – Erica Jong

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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. – Erica Jong

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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barbers wax dummy is to sculpture. – Ezra Pound

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My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. – Wilfred Owen

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I love romantic poetry. – Richard Dawkins

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If the author had said “Let us put on appropriate galoshes,” there could, of course, have been no poem. – Author Unknown

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