Love Comes First Quotes

“I love to go to sleep, when bed takes me like a lover”
― Erica Jong, Love Comes First

“These bits speak history's tattered tale. How we cling to scraps, shards, sea glass- because we cannot stay.”
― Erica Jong, Love Comes First

“The earth is God's book but in our blindness, we have obliterated letters so we may say God has abandoned us. It is we who are illiterate.”
― Erica Jong, Love Comes First

“November and the sun grows sparse in the sky.”
― Erica Jong, Love Comes First

“For what angry God arching backward over the world. his anus spitting fire, the fetid breath of his mouth propelling blood-colored clouds, his navel full of burnt pitch and singed feathers, have we given our eyes, our teeth, our eyeglasses, bales of our our hair, and the magic of our worthless gold?”
― Erica Jong, Love Comes First

“God is not dead but missing in action, and we are destined to wander again for more millennia than there are undiscovered stars.”
― Erica Jong, Love Comes First

“You want to be a poet and not die.”
― Erica Jong, Love Comes First

“The sticky buds of the weeping cherry”
― Erica Jong, Love Comes First

“But I am wise if not yet quite old, wanting the poem more than the lover, wanting words more than the sticky dew men secrete in their private places.”
― Erica Jong, Love Comes First

“Is life much too long for an immortal?”
― Erica Jong, Love Comes First

“You merely pass the time, making millennia fly by.”
― Erica Jong, Love Comes First

“Where could I rest but in your hurricane?”
― Erica Jong, Love Comes First