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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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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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One of the sadder things, I think, Is how our birthdays slowly sink: Presents and parties disappear, The cards grow fewer year by year, Till, when one reaches sixty-five, How many care we're still alive?
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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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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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All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.
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I don't think I write well - just better than anyone else.
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This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe within a wood.
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Only one ship is seeking us, a black-Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her backA huge and birdless silence. In her wakeNo waters breed or break.
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I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
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The chromatic scale is what you use to give the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously.
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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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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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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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Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
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I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.
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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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The breath that sharpens life is life itself.
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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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Things are tougher than we are, just As earth will always respond However we mess it about.
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I have wished you something None of the others would.
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