Dark Quote by Erica Jong

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

— Helen Vendler

I've been writing since I was 10 or 11. I started with poetry because that was the easiest thing. It just kind of came…

— Sasha Grey

“It probably started in poetry; almost everything does.”

— Raymond Chandler

I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is…

— Erica Jong

Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets,…

— Erica Jong

Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is…

— Erica Jong

we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most…

— Erica Jong

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They…

— Erica Jong

'Born This Way' is shaping up to be creative ecstasy.

— Laurieann Gibson

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

— Simone Weil

“Human milk is like ice cream, penicillin, and the drug ecstasy all wrapped up in two pretty packages.”

— Florence Williams

“Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth." [From: 19 Lessons On Tea]”

— Alexander Pushkin