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

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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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Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God. – 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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The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise. – Erica Jong

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For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts. – John Drinkwater

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry. – Raoul Vaneigem

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Its bad poetry executed by people that cant sing. Thats my definition of Rap. – Peter Steele

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If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. – M. H. Abrams

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