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All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.
Philip Larkin
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Philip Larkin
Age: 63 †
Born: 1922
Born: August 9
Died: 1985
Died: December 2
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Coventry
England
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Philip Arthur Larkin
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On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes.
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We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.
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There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
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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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I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.
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Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.
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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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Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.
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