John Updike Quote

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.


As quoted in When Writers Turn to Brave New Forms by Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times (24 March 1986)


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.

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.

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.

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.