There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

Quote by John Updike

Topics: Quotes about John Updike

Share on:

Similar quotes

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them

#Dreams

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

#John Updike

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it...

#John Updike

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

#John Updike

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.

#John Updike

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed...

#John Updike

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

#John Updike

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

#John Updike

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own...

#John Updike