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The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits.

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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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Novelist
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Coventry
England
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Philip Arthur Larkin
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And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.
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Spring, of all seasons most gratuitous, Is fold of untaught flower, is race of water, Is earth's most multiple, excited daughter And those she has least use for see her best, Their paths grown craven and circuitous, Their visions mountain-clear, their needs immodest.
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There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
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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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What are days for? Days are where we live.
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Parting is a training streamer,Lingering like leaves in autumn.
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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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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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Get stewed:Books are a load of crap.
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One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.
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Still, vicious or virtuous, Love suits most of us.
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The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said.
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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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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off? Six days of the week it soils With its sickening poison-- Just for paying a few bills! That's out of proportion.
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I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the cushion when somebody came in.
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I have wished you something None of the others would.
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The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough.
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Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.
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I am awakened each dawn Increasingly to fear.
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