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Get stewed:Books are a load of crap.

Philip Larkin

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Philip Larkin
Age: 63 †
Born: 1922
Born: August 9
Died: 1985
Died: December 2
Critic
Journalist
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Music Critic
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Novelist
Poet
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Coventry
England
UK
Philip Arthur Larkin
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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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Spring, of all seasons most gratuitous, Is fold of untaught flower, is race of water, Is earth's most multiple, excited daughter And those she has least use for see her best, Their paths grown craven and circuitous, Their visions mountain-clear, their needs immodest.
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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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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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What are days for? Days are where we live.
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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 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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On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes.
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It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write.
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Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, / Shaped to the comfort of the last to go / As if to win them back
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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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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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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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The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits.
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The breath that sharpens life is life itself.
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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
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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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Things are tougher than we are, just As earth will always respond However we mess it about.
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