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All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.

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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
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Coventry
England
UK
Philip Arthur Larkin
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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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Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP
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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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The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said.
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One of the sadder things, I think, Is how our birthdays slowly sink: Presents and parties disappear, The cards grow fewer year by year, Till, when one reaches sixty-five, How many care we're still alive?
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Clearly money has something to do with life.
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Get stewed:Books are a load of crap.
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Joy Is for the simple or the great to feel, Neither of which we are.
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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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What are days for? Days are where we live.
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He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.
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The breath that sharpens life is life itself.
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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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Things are tougher than we are, just As earth will always respond However we mess it about.
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Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.
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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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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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