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To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.

Philip Larkin

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Philip Larkin
Age: 63 †
Born: 1922
Born: August 9
Died: 1985
Died: December 2
Critic
Journalist
Librarian
Music Critic
Music Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Philip Arthur Larkin
Unwanted
Incompetent
Start
Place
Feel
Feels
Always

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All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.
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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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I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.
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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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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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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.
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Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.
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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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Life is first boredom, then fear.
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I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.
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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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Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude remains: Time has transfigured them into Untruth. The stone finality They hardly meant has come to be Their final blazon, and to prove Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love.
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I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.
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We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.
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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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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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