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Philip Larkin
Age: 63 †
Born: 1922
Born: August 9
Died: 1985
Died: December 2
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Coventry
England
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Philip Arthur Larkin
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But, o, photography! as no art is,Faithful and disappointing! That recordsDull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,And will not censor blemishes,Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards
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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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To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober.
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I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
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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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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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Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.
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In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.
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SEX is designed for people who like overcoming obstacles.
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Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland.
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We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.
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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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There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
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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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And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.
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The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough.
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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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All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.
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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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I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.
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