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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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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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Any memory for the most part depending on chance.
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On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes.
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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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Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder.
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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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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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Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.
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I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.
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It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write.
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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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The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said.
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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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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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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 write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober.
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I think a young poet, or an old poet, for that matter, should try to produce something that pleases himself personally, not only when he's written it but a couple of weeks later. Then he should see if it pleases anyone else, by sending it to the kind of magazine he likes reading.
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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
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All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.
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