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I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching

I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching – but that wont pay the Bergdorfs bill. I think Ill move to somewhere life is cheaper. – Erica Jong

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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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There is still the feeling that womens writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge. – Erica Jong

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You dont help people in your poems. Ive been trying to help people all my life – thats my trouble. – Charles Olson

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A poet can survive everything but a misprint. – Oscar Wilde

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A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense. – Thomas Harrison

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I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think. – Robert Morgan

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