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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.
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
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Philip Arthur Larkin
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I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.
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Give me a thrill, says the reader, Give me a kick I don't care how you succeed, or What subject you pick.
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Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.
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Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland.
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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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