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Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, / Shaped to the comfort of the last to go / As if to win them back

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Philip Larkin
Age: 63 †
Born: 1922
Born: August 9
Died: 1985
Died: December 2
Critic
Journalist
Librarian
Music Critic
Music Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Philip Arthur Larkin
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Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland.
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Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.
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Still, vicious or virtuous, Love suits most of us.
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I am awakened each dawn Increasingly to fear.
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Uncontradicting solitude Supports me on its giant palm And like a sea-anemone Or simple snail, there cautiously Unfolds, emerges, what I am.
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And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.
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It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind.
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To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.
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Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs: Despite the artful tensions of the calendar, The life insurance, the tabled fertility rites, The costly aversion of the eyes from death- Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs.
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To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober.
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I think a young poet, or an old poet, for that matter, should try to produce something that pleases himself personally, not only when he's written it but a couple of weeks later. Then he should see if it pleases anyone else, by sending it to the kind of magazine he likes reading.
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Things are tougher than we are, just As earth will always respond However we mess it about.
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