If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
Erica JongPoetry 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 JongYou must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
Erica JongIf we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
Erica Jong