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. - John Updike

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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.

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About John Updike

John Hoyer Updike (18 March 1932 – 27 January 2009) was an American novelist, poet, critic and short-story writer.

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You have a life and there are these volumes on either side that go unvisited; some day soon as the world winds he will lie beneath what he now stands on, dead as those insects whose sound he no longer hears, and the grass will go on growing, wild and blind.

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