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He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.

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Philip Larkin
Age: 63 †
Born: 1922
Born: August 9
Died: 1985
Died: December 2
Critic
Journalist
Librarian
Music Critic
Music Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Philip Arthur Larkin
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Away
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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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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 think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.
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To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.
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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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Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.
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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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My age fallen away like white swaddling Floats in the middle distance, becomes An inhabited cloud.
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The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said.
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Get stewed:Books are a load of crap.
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