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It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind.
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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Coventry
England
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Philip Arthur Larkin
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The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to separate a piece of one's experience & set it up on its own, an isolated object never to trouble you again, at least not for a bit. In the absence of this impulse nothing stirs.
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I am beginning to think of the human imagination as a fruit machine on which victories are rare and separated by much vain expense, and represent a rare alignment of mental and spiritual qualities that normally are quite at odds.
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Parting is a training streamer,Lingering like leaves in autumn.
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Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland.
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Life is first boredom, then fear.
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... everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, endlessly.
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Any memory for the most part depending on chance.
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I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.
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You can look out of your life like a train & see what you're heading for, but you can't stop the train.
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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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I have wished you something None of the others would.
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On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes.
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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
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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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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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SEX is designed for people who like overcoming obstacles.
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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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Things are tougher than we are, just As earth will always respond However we mess it about.
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