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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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Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.
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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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Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder.
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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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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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I have wished you something None of the others would.
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Parting is a training streamer,Lingering like leaves in autumn.
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I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.
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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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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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Life is first boredom, then fear.
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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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Clearly money has something to do with life.
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Get stewed:Books are a load of crap.
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Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end.
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I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.
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All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.
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Any memory for the most part depending on chance.
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