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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
Librarian
Music Critic
Music Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Philip Arthur Larkin
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In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.
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I am beginning to think of the human imagination as a fruit machine on which victories are rare and separated by much vain expense, and represent a rare alignment of mental and spiritual qualities that normally are quite at odds.
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Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder.
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Give me a thrill, says the reader, Give me a kick I don't care how you succeed, or What subject you pick.
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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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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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One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.
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The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough.
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