Poems List
Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
The artist brings something into the world that didn’t exist before, and … he does it without destroying something else.
The difference between a childhood and a boyhood must be this: our childhood is what we alone
The essence of government is concern for the widest possible public interest; the essence of the humanities, it seems to me, is private study, thought, and passion. Publicity is a essential to the one as privacy is to the other.
The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage appear.
The Florida sun seems not much a single thing overhead but a set of klieg lights that pursue you everywhere with an even white illumination.
The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents.
The great thing about the dead, they make space.
The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the soul’s very life.
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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.