Poems List
It’s a man’s world, they say; but in its daily textures it is a world created by and for women.
Life is a cinch.
Life is hard.
Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.
Movies are, like sharp sunlight, merciless; we do not imagine, we view.
My father provided; he gathered things to himself and let them fall upon the world; my clothes, my food, my luxurious hopes had fallen to me from him, and for the first time his death seemed, even at its immense stellar remove of impossibility, a grave and dreadful threat.
Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad; hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
Neutrinos, they are very small
New York is of course many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left.
Our genes keep unfolding as long as we live. Harry tastes in his teeth a sourness that offended him on his father’s breath. Poor Pop. His face yellowed like a dried apricot at the end.
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John Updike nasceu em Reading, Pensilvânia, em 18 de março de 1932. Ao longo de sua prolífica carreira, publicou mais de vinte romances, dez coleções de contos e vários livros de poesia e ensaios. Ele é particularmente famoso por sua série de romances sobre o personagem Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, que inclui "Rabbit, Run" (1960), "Rabbit Redux" (1971), "Rabbit Is Rich" (1981) e "Rabbit at Rest" (1990). Updike recebeu inúmeros prêmios literários, incluindo dois prêmios Pulitzer de Ficção. Sua escrita detalhada e lírica o estabeleceu como um dos grandes estilistas da literatura americana. Morreu em Danvers, Massachusetts, em 27 de janeiro de 2009.