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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
Critic
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Music Critic
Music Journalist
Novelist
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Coventry
England
UK
Philip Arthur Larkin
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To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.
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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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We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.
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Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.
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It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind.
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I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
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Parting is a training streamer,Lingering like leaves in autumn.
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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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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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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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I have wished you something None of the others would.
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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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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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The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said.
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The chromatic scale is what you use to give the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously.
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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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... everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, endlessly.
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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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I am awakened each dawn Increasingly to fear.
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