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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
Critic
Journalist
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Music Critic
Music Journalist
Novelist
Poet
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Coventry
England
UK
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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I don't think I write well - just better than anyone else.
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Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland.
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... everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, endlessly.
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Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder.
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One of the sadder things, I think, Is how our birthdays slowly sink: Presents and parties disappear, The cards grow fewer year by year, Till, when one reaches sixty-five, How many care we're still alive?
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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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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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This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe within a wood.
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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
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Any memory for the most part depending on chance.
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