"Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better." ~John Updike
“I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.” ~John Updike (American writer, b.1932)
"Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered." ~John Updike
“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.” ―John Updike, from "My Father's Tears"
"Most of American (idiots) life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went." ~John Updike
"Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life." ~John Updike
"So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls." ~John Updike
"We are most alive when we're in love." ~John Updike
"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit." ~John Updike
"You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbsprint on it." ~John Updike
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VERSE
"The breezes taste
Of apple peel.
The air is full
Of smells to feel-
Ripe fruit, old footballs,
Burning brush,
New books, erasers,
Chalk, and such.
The bee, his hive,
Well-honeyed hum,
And Mother cuts
Chrysanthemums.
Like plates washed clean
With suds, the days
Are polished with
A morning haze."
~John Updike, September
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