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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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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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There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
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In everyone there sleeps a sense of life lived according to love.
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I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
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Clearly money has something to do with life.
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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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It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind.
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Still, vicious or virtuous, Love suits most of us.
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We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.
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My age fallen away like white swaddling Floats in the middle distance, becomes An inhabited cloud.
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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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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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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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Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.
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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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I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.
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I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the cushion when somebody came in.
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Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder.
Philip Larkin
Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends And past the poppies bluish neutral distance Ends the land suddenly beyond a beach Of shapes and shingle. Here is unfenced existence: Facing the sun, untalkative, out of reach.
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