Poems List
Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solicitude is the enemy of well-being.
Pigs at a pastry cart.
Possession diminishes perception of value, immediately.
Pressed, I would define spirituality as the shadow of light humanity casts as it moves through the darkness of everything that can be explained.
Rabbit realized the world was not solid and benign, it was a shabby set of temporaryarrangements rigged up for the time being, all for the sake of the money. You just passedthrough, and they milked you for what youwere worth, mostly when you were young andgullible.
Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
Sex is like money; only too much is enough.
She hasn’t been attending a weekly women’s discussion group down here for nothing. She feels indignant enough, independent enough, to get up and march into the kitchen and open the cabinet doors and pull down the Campari bottle and an orange-juice glass.
So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.
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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.