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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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On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes.
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The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough.
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I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.
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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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Life is first boredom, then fear.
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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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What are days for? Days are where we live.
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Joy Is for the simple or the great to feel, Neither of which we are.
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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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Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs: Despite the artful tensions of the calendar, The life insurance, the tabled fertility rites, The costly aversion of the eyes from death- Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs.
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To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.
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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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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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I have wished you something None of the others would.
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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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The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said.
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He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.
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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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Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude remains: Time has transfigured them into Untruth. The stone finality They hardly meant has come to be Their final blazon, and to prove Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love.
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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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