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Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland.

Philip Larkin

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Philip Larkin
Age: 63 †
Born: 1922
Born: August 9
Died: 1985
Died: December 2
Critic
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Music Critic
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Novelist
Poet
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Coventry
England
UK
Philip Arthur Larkin
Iceland
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Depression

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