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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss. A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.

Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss. A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.

Erica Jong
Loyalty, Dog, Heart
FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 29, 2015

A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.

Erica Jong
Dog, Heart, Pet Loss

There is this tendency to think that if you could only find the magic way, then you could become a poet. "Tell me how to become a poet. Tell me what to do." . . . What makes you a poet is a gift for language, an ability to see into the heart of things, and an ability to deal with important unconscious material. When all these things come together, you're a poet. But there isn't one little gimmick that makes you a poet. There isn't any formula for it.

Erica Jong
Heart, Thinking, Magic

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

Erica Jong
Writing, Heart, Exercise

we all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.

Erica Jong
Family, Home, Heart
Erica Jong (1981). “Fanny”

Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.

Erica Jong
Faith, Heart, Mind

It was the old psychosomatic side-step. Everyone in my family dances it at every opportunity. You've given me a splitting headache! You've given me indigestion! You've given me crotch rot! You've given me auditory hallucinations! You've given me a heart attack! You've given me cancer!

Erica Jong
Family, Cancer, Heart
Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.74, Open Road Media

The bruise on the heart which at first feels incredibly tender to the slightest touch eventually turns all the shades of the rainbow and stops aching. We forget about it. We even forget we have hearts until the next time. And then we wonder how we ever could have forgotten. We think this one is better, because, in fact, we cannot fully remember the time before.

Erica Jong
Heart, Thinking, Rainbow
erica jong “fear of flying”

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