“Imagine yourself a caterpillar.
There’s an awful shrug and, suddenly,
You’re beautiful for as long as you live.”
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Monthly Archives: August 2003
Stephen Dunn
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Erica Jong, Parachutes and Kisses
“After all these years she still tended to assume that most people were decent and well meaning - in spite of a host of experiences to the contrary.”
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Erica Jong, Parachutes and Kisses
“Once she ceased expecting, she ceased being angry - for anger is really disappointed hope.”
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Erica Jong, Parachutes and Kisses
“If flesh is merely a lesson, a way of learning spirit, why does it mark us so? Why do we grow so attached to flesh if it is only a way station? And where is that world of pure spirit in which we do not grieve over mere flesh?”
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Erica Jong, Parachutes and Kisses
“Maybe that was why poets and artists were needed by the human race: because everyone felt like an alien, but poets were the ones who knew how to express it in words.”
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Muriel Rukeyser
“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.”
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Erica Jong, Parachutes and Kisses
“The writer is a vessel for the muse, and when nothing fills the vessel, the vessel wonders whether it exists at all.”
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