What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about — Erica Jong
What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about — Erica Jong
What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about — Erica Jong
What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about — Erica Jong
What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about — Erica Jong
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What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.

— Erica Jong
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