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Philip Larkin
Age: 63 †
Born: 1922
Born: August 9
Died: 1985
Died: December 2
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Music Critic
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Coventry
England
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Philip Arthur Larkin
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Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.
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Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
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A writer once said to me, If you ever go to America, go either to the East Coast or the West Coast: The rest is a desert full of bigots. That's what I think I'd like . . . a version of pastoral.
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One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.
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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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Things are tougher than we are, just As earth will always respond However we mess it about.
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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off? Six days of the week it soils With its sickening poison-- Just for paying a few bills! That's out of proportion.
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Life is first boredom, then fear.
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In everyone there sleeps a sense of life lived according to love.
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The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough.
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I don't think I write well - just better than anyone else.
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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
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You can look out of your life like a train & see what you're heading for, but you can't stop the train.
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This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe within a wood.
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I am beginning to think of the human imagination as a fruit machine on which victories are rare and separated by much vain expense, and represent a rare alignment of mental and spiritual qualities that normally are quite at odds.
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SEX is designed for people who like overcoming obstacles.
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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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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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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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I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.
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