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I have wished you something None of the others would.

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
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Coventry
England
UK
Philip Arthur Larkin
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Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude remains: Time has transfigured them into Untruth. The stone finality They hardly meant has come to be Their final blazon, and to prove Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love.
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I am awakened each dawn Increasingly to fear.
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Things are tougher than we are, just As earth will always respond However we mess it about.
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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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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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Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.
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The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough.
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Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.
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The breath that sharpens life is life itself.
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Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose, And age, and then the only end of age.
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Parting is a training streamer,Lingering like leaves in autumn.
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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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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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