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Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.
Philip Larkin
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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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Novelist
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Coventry
England
UK
Philip Arthur Larkin
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I am awakened each dawn Increasingly to fear.
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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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Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.
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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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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 work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
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The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits.
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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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In everyone there sleeps a sense of life lived according to love.
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I don't think I write well - just better than anyone else.
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The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough.
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Life is first boredom, then fear.
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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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Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.
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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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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 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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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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