John Updike Quote

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.


On T. S. Eliot (1984) by Peter Ackroyd, in which the Eliot estate forbade quotation from Eliot's books and letters, The New Yorker (25 March 1985)


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.

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.

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.

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.