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 1 Share Now -
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. - Erica Jong 2 Share Now -
Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included. - Erica Jong 3 Share Now -
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 5 Share Now -
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. - Erica Jong 6 Share Now -
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 7 Share Now -
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 8 Share Now -
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. - Erica Jong 10 Share Now -
