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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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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.
Philip Larkin
Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends And past the poppies bluish neutral distance Ends the land suddenly beyond a beach Of shapes and shingle. Here is unfenced existence: Facing the sun, untalkative, out of reach.
Philip Larkin
To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober.
Philip Larkin
And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.
Philip Larkin
I am awakened each dawn Increasingly to fear.
Philip Larkin
Parting is a training streamer,Lingering like leaves in autumn.
Philip Larkin
I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.
Philip Larkin
I don't think I write well - just better than anyone else.
Philip Larkin
As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.
Philip Larkin
My age fallen away like white swaddling Floats in the middle distance, becomes An inhabited cloud.
Philip Larkin
Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.
Philip Larkin
Life is first boredom, then fear.
Philip Larkin
You can look out of your life like a train & see what you're heading for, but you can't stop the train.
Philip Larkin
But, o, photography! as no art is,Faithful and disappointing! That recordsDull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,And will not censor blemishes,Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards
Philip Larkin
All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.
Philip Larkin
There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
Philip Larkin
Uncontradicting solitude Supports me on its giant palm And like a sea-anemone Or simple snail, there cautiously Unfolds, emerges, what I am.
Philip Larkin
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.
Philip Larkin
The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits.
Philip Larkin
Still, vicious or virtuous, Love suits most of us.
Philip Larkin
