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Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.

~Erica Jong

Topics: Expression Feeling Find Going Intense Later Life Most My Life My Own Often Own Poems Poetry Predict Think Writing I Think

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In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love.

~Erica Jong

Topics: Almost Always Dies Express Fall Feelings Loss Love Pain People Poetry Someone Turn You

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Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.

~Erica Jong

Topics: Anybody Attack Being Figure First First People Goes Graduate Graduate Student Instantly People Poet Praise Prepare Public Public Figure Shock State Student Then Want Who You

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As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.

~Erica Jong

Topics: Able Authors Away Beginning Being Free Giving Guild Idea Living Make Maybe Past President Reputation Think Time Women Work Write Writers You Your I Think

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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.

~Erica Jong

Topics: About Back Complain Fame Famous Famous People Give Included Myself Never People Want

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I do a lot of teaching... and so I think I know how hard it is for young writers, how they have to work two jobs to survive.

~Erica Jong

Topics: Hard How Jobs Know Lot Survive Teaching Think To Survive Two Work Writers Young Young Writers I Think

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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.

~Erica Jong

Topics: Able Being Computer Desk Despair Easy First Legal Line Pad Pen Put Screen Sentence Silence Sitting Type Write

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What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.

~Erica Jong

Topics: About Beginning Death Eros How Love Only Paradox Poetry Sources Subjects Those

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I think that Sappho expresses the orphaned part of ourselves. The orphaned part of ourselves that reaches out to passion for completion. That reaches out to motherhood for completion.

~Erica Jong

Topics: Completion Expresses Motherhood Ourselves Out Part Passion Think I Think

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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.

~Erica Jong

Topics: Against Always Attitudes Backlash Change History Ideas Line People Proceeds Progressive Social Straight Straight Line Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: March 26th, 1942

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