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There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

Philip Larkin

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Philip Larkin
Age: 63 †
Born: 1922
Born: August 9
Died: 1985
Died: December 2
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Music Critic
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Coventry
England
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Philip Arthur Larkin
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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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Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP
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Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance.
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I have wished you something None of the others would.
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Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, / Shaped to the comfort of the last to go / As if to win them back
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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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Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd.
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Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
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On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes.
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Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder.
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I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.
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The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits.
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Many famous feet have trod Sublunary paths, and famous hands have weighed The strength they have against the strength they need And famous lips interrogated God Concerning franchise in eternity.
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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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Get stewed:Books are a load of crap.
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Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.
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Still, vicious or virtuous, Love suits most of us.
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What are days for? Days are where we live.
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I am awakened each dawn Increasingly to fear.
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The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to separate a piece of one's experience & set it up on its own, an isolated object never to trouble you again, at least not for a bit. In the absence of this impulse nothing stirs.
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