Seek My Face Quotes

“And, as in the sunburst of the Renaissance,
Paint shall be gorgeous and, I hope, holy? —KARL SHAPIRO, Trial of a Poet”
― John Updike, Seek My Face: A Novel

“She felt an infinite, widening magic in this, and also the element of protest which made people want to nail down pieces of a world that was always sliding away from under them; the world was an assembly line that kept spilling goods forward, into a heap of the lost and forgotten. With the protest came a gaiety, that of small defiant victories over time, creating things to keep.”
― John Updike, Seek My Face: A Novel

“as if in the pre-dawn, before light begins to lift edges into being.”
― John Updike, Seek My Face: A Novel