Quote by Erica Jong
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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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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Knowledge
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When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order. – Erica Jong

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Home
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No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern. – Thomas Harrison

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Poetry

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. – Khalil Gibran

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A poem is never finished, only abandoned. – Paul Valéry

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Poetry

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. – Carl Sandburg, Poetry Considered

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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. – Orson Welles

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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. – Edgar Allan Poe

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Wisdom comes alone through suffering. – Aeschylus

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Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. – Vincent Van Gogh

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