"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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Poetry
― 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."
- "Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting ‘Hiawatha’ and they groan."
- "Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness."
More In Poetry
- "I’ve always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry."― Jeffery Deaver
- "I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies."― Boris Pasternak
- "I’ve managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera."― Leonardo DiCaprio