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The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits.
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
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Philip Arthur Larkin
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Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.
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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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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 work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
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Any memory for the most part depending on chance.
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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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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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Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance.
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Still, vicious or virtuous, Love suits most of us.
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Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland.
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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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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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Clearly money has something to do with life.
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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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All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.
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In everyone there sleeps a sense of life lived according to love.
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There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
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