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What are days for? Days are where we live.

Philip Larkin

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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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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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And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.
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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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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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I am beginning to think of the human imagination as a fruit machine on which victories are rare and separated by much vain expense, and represent a rare alignment of mental and spiritual qualities that normally are quite at odds.
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You can look out of your life like a train & see what you're heading for, but you can't stop the train.
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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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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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Get stewed:Books are a load of crap.
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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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I am awakened each dawn Increasingly to fear.
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My age fallen away like white swaddling Floats in the middle distance, becomes An inhabited cloud.
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Parting is a training streamer,Lingering like leaves in autumn.
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Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd.
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I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.
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The breath that sharpens life is life itself.
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