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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

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
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Philip Arthur Larkin
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To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.
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To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober.
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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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When I get sent manuscripts from aspiring poets, I do one of two things: if there is no stamped self-addressed envelope, I throw it into the bin.-If there is, I write and tell them to f**k off.
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Life is first boredom, then fear.
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I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
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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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All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.
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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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As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.
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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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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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Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.
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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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Clearly money has something to do with life.
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Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.
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Joy Is for the simple or the great to feel, Neither of which we are.
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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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