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John Updike

"Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea."

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Donna Grant

"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"

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Donna Grant

"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."

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Donna Grant

"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."

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Donna Grant

"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."

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Donna Grant

"The crown of literature is poetry."

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Donna Grant

"A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it."

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Donna Grant

"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."

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Donna Grant

"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."

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Donna Grant

"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."

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Donna Grant

"One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose."

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John Updike
"Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered."

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John Updike
"The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion."

Religion

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John Updike
"A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world."

Leadership

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John Updike
"A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens."

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John Updike
"Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art."

Art

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John Updike
"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit."

Art

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John Updike
"But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography."

Writing

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John Updike
"The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop."

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John Updike
"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."

Marriage

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John Updike
"America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy."

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