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Parting is a training streamer,Lingering like leaves in autumn.

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
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Coventry
England
UK
Philip Arthur Larkin
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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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One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.
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The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to separate a piece of one's experience & set it up on its own, an isolated object never to trouble you again, at least not for a bit. In the absence of this impulse nothing stirs.
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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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This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe within a wood.
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Joy Is for the simple or the great to feel, Neither of which we are.
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All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.
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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
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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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The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said.
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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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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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Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose, And age, and then the only end of age.
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The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough.
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The breath that sharpens life is life itself.
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Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
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Get stewed:Books are a load of crap.
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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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Things are tougher than we are, just As earth will always respond However we mess it about.
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