Quotes
Authors
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, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill." --
Erica Jong
#Culture Quotes
#World Quotes
#Way Quotes
“Time was away and somewhere else, There were two glasses and two chairs And two people with one pulse.”
Source : 'Meeting Point'
“There's nothing like the endorphins from being fit, and the incredible endorphin rush that goes with that. It beats drugs, drink, and almost anything else I know.”
“In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!”
“The hardest thing about my job isn't the snake bites or the crocodiles, it's being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight.”
“Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.”
“In the United States there are three parts of our government - the judiciary, the legislative and the executive - and the powers are divided on purpose. And that was - that - so that no one branch could run off.”
“I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.”
“There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.”