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To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober.

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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Sober
Warm
Loved
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When I get sent manuscripts from aspiring poets, I do one of two things: if there is no stamped self-addressed envelope, I throw it into the bin.-If there is, I write and tell them to f**k off.
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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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The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said.
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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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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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It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind.
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Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end.
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Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.
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Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.
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Get stewed:Books are a load of crap.
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We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.
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But, o, photography! as no art is,Faithful and disappointing! That recordsDull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,And will not censor blemishes,Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards
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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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I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.
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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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Clearly money has something to do with life.
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My age fallen away like white swaddling Floats in the middle distance, becomes An inhabited cloud.
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All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.
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Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder.
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