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I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.

Erica Jong
Dark, Ecstasy, Poetry Is
Erica Jong (1999). “What Do Women Want?: Bread, Roses, Sex, Power”, Perennial
I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.