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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.

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
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Coventry
England
UK
Philip Arthur Larkin
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Thing

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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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I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the cushion when somebody came in.
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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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Parting is a training streamer,Lingering like leaves in autumn.
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The chromatic scale is what you use to give the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously.
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Joy Is for the simple or the great to feel, Neither of which we are.
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Still, vicious or virtuous, Love suits most of us.
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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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It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind.
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My age fallen away like white swaddling Floats in the middle distance, becomes An inhabited cloud.
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In everyone there sleeps a sense of life lived according to love.
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And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.
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I have wished you something None of the others would.
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There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
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He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.
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Clearly money has something to do with life.
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... everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, endlessly.
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