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I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.

Philip Larkin

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Philip Larkin
Age: 63 †
Born: 1922
Born: August 9
Died: 1985
Died: December 2
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Coventry
England
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Philip Arthur Larkin
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The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to separate a piece of one's experience & set it up on its own, an isolated object never to trouble you again, at least not for a bit. In the absence of this impulse nothing stirs.
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Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.
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One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do ourselves.
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The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough.
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Spring, of all seasons most gratuitous, Is fold of untaught flower, is race of water, Is earth's most multiple, excited daughter And those she has least use for see her best, Their paths grown craven and circuitous, Their visions mountain-clear, their needs immodest.
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Life is first boredom, then fear.
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It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write.
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Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd.
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The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits.
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To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.
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When I get sent manuscripts from aspiring poets, I do one of two things: if there is no stamped self-addressed envelope, I throw it into the bin.-If there is, I write and tell them to f**k off.
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We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.
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What are days for? Days are where we live.
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