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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
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Philip Arthur Larkin
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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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... everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, endlessly.
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Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP
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Joy Is for the simple or the great to feel, Neither of which we are.
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Only one ship is seeking us, a black-Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her backA huge and birdless silence. In her wakeNo waters breed or break.
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