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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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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. – Erica Jong

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Change
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Erica Jong
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. – Erica Jong

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

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Feminism
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Other Quotes from
Poetry
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For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music. – Eugenio Montale

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Poetry

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science. – Walter Jon Williams

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Poetry

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. – John Keats

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Poetry

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world. – Richard Eberhart

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Poetry

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It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it werent for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didnt fight with honor… I fought to win. – Orson Scott Card

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Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. Youve been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her. – Tony Randall

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In a soulmate we find not company but a completed solitude. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Humor is… despair refusing to take itself seriously. – Arland Ussher

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