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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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It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind.
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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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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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Any memory for the most part depending on chance.
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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
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In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.
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Many famous feet have trod Sublunary paths, and famous hands have weighed The strength they have against the strength they need And famous lips interrogated God Concerning franchise in eternity.
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Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.
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My age fallen away like white swaddling Floats in the middle distance, becomes An inhabited cloud.
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Still, vicious or virtuous, Love suits most of us.
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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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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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... everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, endlessly.
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The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits.
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The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said.
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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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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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There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
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Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
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Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP
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