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One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.
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
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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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Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP
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Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.
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I am beginning to think of the human imagination as a fruit machine on which victories are rare and separated by much vain expense, and represent a rare alignment of mental and spiritual qualities that normally are quite at odds.
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Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
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I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
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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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Things are tougher than we are, just As earth will always respond However we mess it about.
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I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.
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Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, / Shaped to the comfort of the last to go / As if to win them back
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Still, vicious or virtuous, Love suits most of us.
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I don't think I write well - just better than anyone else.
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Spring, of all seasons most gratuitous, Is fold of untaught flower, is race of water, Is earth's most multiple, excited daughter And those she has least use for see her best, Their paths grown craven and circuitous, Their visions mountain-clear, their needs immodest.
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In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.
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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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Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder.
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There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
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I am awakened each dawn Increasingly to fear.
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I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.
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We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.
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