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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
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Coventry
England
UK
Philip Arthur Larkin
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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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I don't think I write well - just better than anyone else.
Philip Larkin
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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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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
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The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits.
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Still, vicious or virtuous, Love suits most of us.
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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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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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I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.
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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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There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
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Clearly money has something to do with life.
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Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
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In everyone there sleeps a sense of life lived according to love.
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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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Any memory for the most part depending on chance.
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Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder.
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I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.
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Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end.
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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