John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic
As quoted in “When Writers Turn to Brave New Forms” by Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times (24 March 1986)
“Poems are the dreams of the universe crystallized in words.”
— David Zindell, book The Broken God
Source: The Broken God (1992), p. 296
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