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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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Coventry
England
UK
Philip Arthur Larkin
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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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SEX is designed for people who like overcoming obstacles.
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On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes.
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The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough.
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Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.
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There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
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This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe within a wood.
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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.
Philip Larkin
As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.
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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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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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Clearly money has something to do with life.
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Still, vicious or virtuous, Love suits most of us.
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I have wished you something None of the others would.
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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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Life is first boredom, then fear.
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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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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.
Philip Larkin
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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In everyone there sleeps a sense of life lived according to love.
Philip Larkin
