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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.

Philip Larkin

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Philip Larkin
Age: 63 †
Born: 1922
Born: August 9
Died: 1985
Died: December 2
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Philip Arthur Larkin
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Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs: Despite the artful tensions of the calendar, The life insurance, the tabled fertility rites, The costly aversion of the eyes from death- Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs.
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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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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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Uncontradicting solitude Supports me on its giant palm And like a sea-anemone Or simple snail, there cautiously Unfolds, emerges, what I am.
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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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Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder.
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I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
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The breath that sharpens life is life itself.
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Get stewed:Books are a load of crap.
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We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.
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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. 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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I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.
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SEX is designed for people who like overcoming obstacles.
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Any memory for the most part depending on chance.
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What are days for? Days are where we live.
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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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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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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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