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I don't think I write well - just better than anyone else.

Philip Larkin

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Philip Larkin
Age: 63 †
Born: 1922
Born: August 9
Died: 1985
Died: December 2
Critic
Journalist
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Music Critic
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Novelist
Poet
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Coventry
England
UK
Philip Arthur Larkin
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I am awakened each dawn Increasingly to fear.
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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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We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.
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I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.
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