Quotes from Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected — Erica Jong
born 1942 United States
14 quotes
Betrayal does that -- betrays the betrayer.
I look forward and see myself look back.
I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
In loving life you love what can't survive...
Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm.
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry...
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye...
Hate generalizes; love is particular.
Why does life need evidence of life?
...if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
...I am sure that when we love we are better than ourselves and when we hate, worse.
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Erica Jong (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.