"Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea."
― John Updike
Topic(s):
Poetry
More From John Updike
- "I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone."
- "Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five."
- "The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop."
More In Poetry
- "There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry."― Emily Dickinson
- "I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver what I could deliver."― Martin Lawrence
- "Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man’s life if he has the weight and cares about the words."― Archibald MacLeish