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He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.
Philip Larkin
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Philip Larkin
Age: 63 †
Born: 1922
Born: August 9
Died: 1985
Died: December 2
Critic
Journalist
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Music Critic
Music Journalist
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Coventry
England
UK
Philip Arthur Larkin
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All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.
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Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.
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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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On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes.
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Any memory for the most part depending on chance.
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Clearly money has something to do with life.
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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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We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.
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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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Uncontradicting solitude Supports me on its giant palm And like a sea-anemone Or simple snail, there cautiously Unfolds, emerges, what I am.
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The breath that sharpens life is life itself.
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My age fallen away like white swaddling Floats in the middle distance, becomes An inhabited cloud.
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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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Life is first boredom, then fear.
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I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
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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 have wished you something None of the others would.
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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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