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Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.

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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 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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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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Clearly money has something to do with life.
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The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said.
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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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Get stewed:Books are a load of crap.
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Life is first boredom, then fear.
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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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Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP
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Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland.
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There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
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Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.
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He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.
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We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.
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All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.
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I don't think I write well - just better than anyone else.
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But, o, photography! as no art is,Faithful and disappointing! That recordsDull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,And will not censor blemishes,Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards
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You can look out of your life like a train & see what you're heading for, but you can't stop the train.
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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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