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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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This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe within a wood.
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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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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 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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Clearly money has something to do with life.
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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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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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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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We should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.
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He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.
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Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.
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Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off? Six days of the week it soils With its sickening poison-- Just for paying a few bills! That's out of proportion.
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I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.
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Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end.
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I have wished you something None of the others would.
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