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On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes.
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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It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind.
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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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Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end.
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To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.
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Life is first boredom, then fear.
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To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober.
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Joy Is for the simple or the great to feel, Neither of which we are.
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Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.
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Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.
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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off? Six days of the week it soils With its sickening poison-- Just for paying a few bills! That's out of proportion.
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The chromatic scale is what you use to give the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously.
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In everyone there sleeps a sense of life lived according to love.
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Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.
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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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Many famous feet have trod Sublunary paths, and famous hands have weighed The strength they have against the strength they need And famous lips interrogated God Concerning franchise in eternity.
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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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All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.
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I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.
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I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.
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Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose, And age, and then the only end of age.
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