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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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On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes.
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I think a young poet, or an old poet, for that matter, should try to produce something that pleases himself personally, not only when he's written it but a couple of weeks later. Then he should see if it pleases anyone else, by sending it to the kind of magazine he likes reading.
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To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.
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I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.
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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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Still, vicious or virtuous, Love suits most of us.
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I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.
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Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.
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Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP
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Parting is a training streamer,Lingering like leaves in autumn.
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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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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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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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All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.
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I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.
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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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He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.
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Life is first boredom, then fear.
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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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Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland.
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