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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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Clearly money has something to do with life.
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... everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, endlessly.
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What are days for? Days are where we live.
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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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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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All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.
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The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough.
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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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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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One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.
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One of the sadder things, I think, Is how our birthdays slowly sink: Presents and parties disappear, The cards grow fewer year by year, Till, when one reaches sixty-five, How many care we're still alive?
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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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Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends And past the poppies bluish neutral distance Ends the land suddenly beyond a beach Of shapes and shingle. Here is unfenced existence: Facing the sun, untalkative, out of reach.
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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 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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Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
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There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
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