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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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Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.
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A writer once said to me, If you ever go to America, go either to the East Coast or the West Coast: The rest is a desert full of bigots. That's what I think I'd like . . . a version of pastoral.
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Life is first boredom, then fear.
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The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough.
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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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One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.
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On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes.
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Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland.
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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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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.
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Give me a thrill, says the reader, Give me a kick I don't care how you succeed, or What subject you pick.
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Parting is a training streamer,Lingering like leaves in autumn.
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I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.
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Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose, And age, and then the only end of age.
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The breath that sharpens life is life itself.
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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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I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.
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... everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, endlessly.
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One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do ourselves.
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Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.
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